[New-Poetry] laureate

[TheOldMole]

I don't really have a problem with an establishment position going to an 
establishment figure. I'm glad poetry is sufficiently recognized in the 
US, death knells notwithstanding, that it has both an establishment and 
a fringe.

Now if I could only figure out which one I'm in....

Roger Day wrote:
> I'd forgotten about Dana Gioia. Yes, kudos to the Bush administration
> for his appointment. However, he's a very safe pair of hands - an
> ex-suit -  unlikely to upset Midwest voters with a Mabblethorpe-type
> exhibition.
>
> Roger
>
> On Mon, May 5, 2008 at 4:40 PM, TheOldMole <Opus40-01 at opus40.org> wrote:
>> Bush doesn't, Laura maybe does. The Bush administration did put a poet
>> (Gioia) in charge of the NEA.
>

-- 
Tad Richards
http://www.opus40.org/tadrichards/
http://opusforty.blogspot.com/

The moral is this: in American verse,
The better you are, the pay is worse.
  --Corey Ford