Poet Laureate

Something Completely Different: Our New Poet Laureate

Did you know that the Oxford University Press (USA) has a blog? I didn’t either until, by a circuitous path involving a professor of Civil War history who also writes for it, I ran across this discussion of our nation’s new Poet Laureate. I am the last person on earth qualified to discuss poetry (being convinced that the art, in English at least, peaked with Robert Service and Rudyard Kipling) but this guy looks good. Keep in mind that the title is awarded by the Library of Congress and not the current administration. Here’s a sample:

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