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- Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 13:57:44 -0500
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- Subject: Re: Maya Angelou - Poet Laureate?
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- No, Angelou is not the Poet Laureate, she-as a fellow Tennesee
- naitive-was asked by Bubba #1 to write and recite the Inaugural poem
- in the same manner of Robert Frost back in '61...
- The Poet Laureate is selected by the Librarian of Congress...
- The first was Robert Penn Warren in '86, the current PL is
- Mona Van Duyn, selected in '92 and the first woman to fill
- that job...
- Marc C. Wilson
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