[New-Poetry] Alien Body Snatchers Proliferate As Poet Laureates, No Neighborhood or Borough is Safe

[Jason Quackenbush]

I wonder if I can con the SeaTac city council into naming me the poet  
laureate...

On Feb 1, 2008, at 1:08 PM, jforjames at aol.com wrote:

> http://www.boston.com/news/local/articles/2008/01/31/ 
> poet_laureate_spreading_the_words/
> Globe Correspondent / January 31, 2008
>
> NORTH ANDOVER - Mike Souza could give some words of advice to  
> Boston's new poet laureate.
> more stories like thisThe city of Boston appointed its first poet  
> laureate this month amid headlines and some controversy, but Souza  
> already has nearly two years under his belt in such a post.
> He is the laureate in North Andover, population 27,196. Though the  
> town hasn't nearly the land mass or number of people as Boston, nor  
> quite the Hub's storied literary history, it is one of several  
> communities around the region that decided a while ago that poetry  
> should be lauded.
>
> It is unclear exactly how many officially acclaimed poets exist.
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