outrage and empowerment
Sunday, October 5th, 2003
Laila Lalami
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poet laureate profile
Monday, September 22nd, 2003
Though Britain has had a poet laureate for centuries, the United States has had one only since 1986, when legislators renamed the position of Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress. The Library itself now describes the poet laureate, perhaps alarmingly, as ‘the nation’s official lightning rod for the poetic impulse of Americans. I [...]
