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- Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 12:32:25 -0500
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- From: rlbs@ELWOOD.ESU.EDU
- Subject: Poet Laureate
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- > I seem to recall reading recently that we no longer have a Poet Laureate
- > as the last one resigned. If that is true, I think that Maya Angelou would
- > be an excellent choice.
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- > Mindy Fiala
- > MFiala@vax1.umkc.edu
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- Maya Angelou was named (U.S.) Poet Laureate last year by George Bush.
- Like the British Poets Laureate, the US position has been graced by
- persons of uneven talent. To be fair, it _is_ a lousy position; the
- PL must produce works on demand for occasions not usually poetically (?)
- inspiring.
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- Does anyone recall the name of the British Poet Laureate? Last I heard,
- it was a poet from the West Indies, a Derek ___(?)
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- Richard Bugyi-Sutter
- E Stroudsburg Univ, PA, USA.
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