[New-Poetry] laureate

[Anny Ballardini]

Laureate, in Italian, laureato, which means graduate. For me it sounds like 
a promotion, a graduation. Yes, it comes from laurel, why not? If you say 
Minister (also from Latin origins), you take away the freedom a Laureate 
enjoys, and s/he will have to sit down at all the boring meetings,
I think they should have a Laureate in every country, possibly with that 
Huge Machine Bob has just invented, that would be interesting...

p.s.: I love that 'sublime ignorance'

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Roger Day" <rog3r.day at gmail.com>
To: "NewPoetry: Contemporary Poetry News &amp,Views" 
<new-poetry at wiz.cath.vt.edu>
Sent: Monday, May 05, 2008 12:22 PM
Subject: Re: [New-Poetry] laureate


> 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
>>
>>
>>
>>  -----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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