[New-Poetry] laureate

[judy prince]

Do you like to be addressed as James or as Finnegan -- or a nother name?  

Ah, wot the hell, I'll call you JayFor!!

Romantic you, JayFor!  Prolly we get the laureate post bcuz we're the least likely of all the arts-producers to make money from our considerable output!!  Poet Laureate, a kinda Pity Prize.  The world watches and sez:  "Look at that poor schlub, finally gonna make some (temporary) bread." And then they turn off the tube and start writing SF or romance novels.

Judy whose friends write better poetry than me, for which I suffer nobly
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: jforjames at aol.com 
  To: new-poetry at wiz.cath.vt.edu 
  Sent: Sunday, May 04, 2008 7:41 PM
  Subject: Re: [New-Poetry] laureate



  I was thinking that only Poetry, despite its much talked about marginalization, is the only one of Arts that get such prominant position both named and paid for by our national government. There is no Symphony Orchestra Conductor Laureate, no Filmmaker Laureate, no Painter Laureate? We're special.

  Finnegan


  -----Original Message-----
  From: Barone, Dennis <dbarone at sjc.edu>
  To: new-poetry at wiz.cath.vt.edu
  Sent: Sun, 4 May 2008 8:56 am
  Subject: [New-Poetry] laureate




  I'd like to see the post of poet laureate of the United States eliminated.  Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress sounds ok to me, laureate does not.
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