[New-Poetry] laureate

[Roger Day]

Having a poet laureate is too much like medieval europe for me, poet
courtiers and all that. A ministry of culture would suffice. Barely
anyone reads their output in this country anyway; it passes by in
sublime ignorance.

Roger

On Mon, May 5, 2008 at 12:41 AM,  <jforjames at aol.com> wrote:
> Going back to old label for the post makes sense to me per the Enersonian
> ideal of trying to establish a native literary tradition. When the name of
> the post was changed it was clearly a 'marketing' decision. Still
> 'Consultant' does sound a bit sterile/technical.
>
>  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
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>  -----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
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> 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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