[New-Poetry] Kay Ryan new Poet Laureate

[Roger Day]

You speak as if the deal was done, that a woman candidate was au
natiurelle, a part of the succession.for every post, the whole field
would be considered?

Roger

On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 12:06 PM, Linda Sue Grimes
<lsgrimes at stonegulch.com> wrote:
> Right...There hasn't been a woman poet laureate since 2003.
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> lsg
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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: amy king
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> Sent: Wednesday, July 16, 2008 9:27 PM
> Subject: [New-Poetry] Kay Ryan new Poet Laureate
> And long overdue, in terms of -- yep -- gender:
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> The list, up to Donald Hall in 2006, appears here [followed by Kooser,
> Simic, and now Ryan]:
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> U.S. Poet Laureate Timeline [1937 - 2006 = 36 Men and 8 Women]
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> http://amyking.wordpress.com/2008/03/23/what%e2%80%99s-love-got-to-do-with-it/
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> Kay Ryan Named Poet Laureate - NYT:
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> http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/17/books/17poet.html
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