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Nevadans: Poet Wanted [US]:

Arts council officials, in Carson City, announced a Tuesday deadline for nominations for a new poet laureate to serve from 2005 through 2007.

The chosen laureate would replace this guy:

Kaye acknowledges that holding on to the title has perhaps taken on some outsized importance in his life, as other parts of it have slipped away. His third wife, a former Miss Nevada who was one of five finalists in the 1964 Miss America pageant--to whom he was married 39 years--died last year. She was 59.

Kaye began his show-business career as a child. His father, Johnny Kaaihue, better known as Johnny Ukulele for the instrument he played, put Norman and his sister to work at an early age. They traveled the country as Johnny Kaaihue and the Royal Hawaiians.

After World War II, Kaye shortened his last name. He migrated to Las Vegas and started up the Mary Kaye Trio with his sister and an accordionist from Cleveland, Biagio Rossario Blogna, who later changed his name to Frank Ross. [...]

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