City will have own poet laureate [Duluth]:
Denver, San Francisco and Grand Rapids, Mich., have poet laureates. Thirty-seven states also have one.said the state dickhead.
Minnesota doesn't have any of such prominence, but that will change in April when Duluth names a poet laureate. [...]
The Duluth effort was spurred by Gov. Tim Pawlenty's veto last spring of a state poet laureate program.
"While respectful and appreciative of the arts, I do not believe Minnesota needs an official state poet," Pawlenty wrote in his veto message. "We can benefit from the richness and the diversity of all the poets in Minnesota and recognize and embrace their work as merit and circumstances warrant."
Minnesota already has a state folklorist. And Pawlenty expressed concern that "this will lead to calls for similar positions. We could see requests for a state mime, interpretive dancer or potter. So, I draw the line here..."
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At 4:34 AM,The link in the header to this post doesn't go to the source of the post, it goes to the Dumbfoundry main page. Or was that intentional?
Just wondering if you meant to link to somewhere else?
At 7:11 AM,
My mistake. Thanks.
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