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- Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 08:08:13 EST
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- From: Ken Koester <MAINT2@ERS.BITNET>
- Subject: Re: Maya Angelou - Poet Laureate?
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- 21 Jan 1993 11:18:27 EDT from <FRENKEL@CPMAIL-AM.C
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- On Thu, 21 Jan 1993 11:18:27 EDT Tom Frenkel said:
- >Hi ... I just was reading the poem, "On the Pulse of Morning", by
- >Maya Angelou, which she read at the Inauguration yesterday. Does
- >someone know if she's the Poet Laureate? And if not, who is? And
- >how far back does the Poet Laureate-ship go back in this country?
- >Who have been our Poet Laureates in the past?
- >
- >Thanks!
- >
- > Tom Frenkel (frenkel@cpmail-am.cis.columbia.edu)
-
- Yes, I believe she is, or will be shortly. The first one I can remember is
- Robert Frost, during the Kennedy administration. I think possibly the post
- was created at that time, but can't swear to it.
-