[New-Poetry] laureate

[TheOldMole]

Bush doesn't, Laura maybe does. The Bush administration did put a poet 
(Gioia) in charge of the NEA.

Roger Day wrote:
> The US "Poet Laureate Consultant", to give the full honorarium, has
> been "time-honoured" in the USA since 1985. Poetry consultant since
> 1939, and Robert Frost. The LOC has poetry speicialists, so consultant
> seems a good, modern title which would sound better over time.
>
> Poetry Consultant is something I'd like the British Library have - the
> national library and the national poet should go hand in hand I think.
>
> Does anyone know why the Republicans wanted a Poet Laureate
> Consultant? To get away from the New Deal? It's not as if they
> actually seem to like poetry these days - the only Presidents to have
> a poem read at an inauguration have been Democrats. Carter published a
> slim volume. Does Bush actually read anything outside the funnies?
>
> My, how times have changed. John Quincy Adams wrote - and published -
> an epic poem. He also used to go skinny-dipping in the Potomac at 5am
> each day. Someone stole his clothes once, and he had to be rescued by
> a small boy. It seems incredible at this distance.
>
> Roger
>
> On Sun, May 4, 2008 at 3:13 PM,  <shin02143 at aol.com> wrote:
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>> Dennis,
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>> Could you explain your reasoning? I like the idea of a national poet
>> laureate. It is a time honored tradition and it occasionally even honors a
>> deserving poet. Maybe in today's diffuse environment a laureate doesn't mean
>> as much as it once did, if that is your point, but there are so few truly
>> significant honors an American poet can receive I see no reason to eliminate
>> this one.
>>
>>
>> Richard
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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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