[New-Poetry] Kay Ryan new Poet Laureate

[Roger Day]

I was fairly well oiled that night, having packed away a bottle of
wine.  I think what I meant to say was, given the spread of poets
today, 5 years is long over-due for a female poet to become poet
laureate. There should be more, even year-on-year succession of women
poets.

I don't even expect them to be democratically elected but, given the
wide pool of poets to chose from, I'd certainly expect women poets to
be chosen more regularly. It's somewhat of a numbers game after all.

Taken stochastically, the more poets there are, the better chance of
quality appearing somewhere in the selection. And there a lot of women
poets being published today, producing a lot of excellent work. so
yes, 5 years is too long.

apologies for speaking incoherently in two languages.

Lech

On Sun, Jul 20, 2008 at 11:40 AM, Linda Sue Grimes
<lsgrimes at stonegulch.com> wrote:
> I think he misunderstood my remark.  He's trying to say, "you think that
> there should be an even split of men and women chosen to the post."
>
> Actually, I was reacting to the odd claim that appointing a woman was "long
> overdue," because there had been a woman only five years ago in 2003-2004.
> Five years is " long overdue"?
>
> Now, however, I too would like to know what he intended to say.  Is English
> not his first language?  Obviously, French isn't.
>
> lsg
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Judy Prince
> To: NewPoetry: Contemporary Poetry News &amp,Views
> Sent: Saturday, July 19, 2008 10:37 PM
> Subject: Re: [New-Poetry] Kay Ryan new Poet Laureate
> Roger, could you explain what you just said?
> Judy
>
> 2008/7/19 Roger Day <rog3r.day at gmail.com>:
>>
>> 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.
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > lsg
>> >
>> > ----- Original Message -----
>> > From: amy king
>> > To: NewPoetry: Contemporary Poetry News &amp,Views ; Women's Poetry
>> > Listserve ; UB Poetics discussion group
>> > Sent: Wednesday, July 16, 2008 9:27 PM
>> > Subject: [New-Poetry] Kay Ryan new Poet Laureate
>> > And long overdue, in terms of -- yep -- gender:
>> >
>> >
>> > The list, up to Donald Hall in 2006, appears here [followed by Kooser,
>> > Simic, and now Ryan]:
>> >
>> > U.S. Poet Laureate Timeline [1937 - 2006 = 36 Men and 8 Women]
>> >
>> >
>> > http://amyking.wordpress.com/2008/03/23/what%e2%80%99s-love-got-to-do-with-it/
>> >
>> > ~~~
>> >
>> > Kay Ryan Named Poet Laureate - NYT:
>> >
>> > http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/17/books/17poet.html
>> >
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