Article: The beauty of words.(Newsmakers)

Article: Roses are red, budgets are blue ... Lawmakers mull creation of ...
Telegram & Gazette (Worcester, MA);  August 4, 2009 ;     700+ words ... ... pushing for the establishment of a poet laureate for the state. Massachusetts, the ... 01. Alas, the commonwealth has no poet laureate. State Rep. Anne M. Gobi, D-Spencer ... said, `You know we don't have a poet laureate in Massachusetts. ... You think ...

Article: NOMINATIONS SOUGHT FOR COLORADO POET LAUREATE
US Fed News Service, Including US State News;  July 25, 2008 ;     593 words ... ... being accepted for the position of Colorado Poet Laureate. The Poet Laureate position was created to promote an appreciation ... and to honor outstanding Colorado poets. The Poet Laureate will serve as an active advocate for poetry ...

Article: WISCONSIN BEGINS SEARCH FOR ITS NEW POET ...
The Capital Times (Madison, WI);  April 2, 2004 ;     700+ words ... ... start a search for Wisconsin's new poet laureate than during National Poetry Month ... conference at the State Capitol. A Poet Laureate Nomination Commission appointed by ... four-year term of the first state poet laureate, Ellen Kort, will end in September ...

Article: Snap poetry quiz.(Editorials)(And the new U.S. poet ...
The Register-Guard (Eugene, OR);  June 15, 2006 ;     700+ words ... ... Guard Quick, name the next poet laureate of the United States. Don ... The name of the current poet laureate will suffice. Still stumped ... name of the first U.S. poet laureate? And who decides who gets ...

Article: N.J.'s Poet Laureate Counters Trend
AP Online;  October 9, 2002 ;     700+ words ... ... Baraka, New Jersey's politicized poet laureate, is as harmless as a nursery rhyme ... allegedly anti-Semitic verse, is that a poet laureate is actually making news. I think that ... Stanley Kunitz, 2000-2001 U.S. Poet Laureate, said in a recent interview. New ...

Article: A short history of the poet laureate
Post-Tribune (IN);  February 25, 2001 ;     700+ words ... ... why the president hasn't selected a poet laureate. But not all poets who read at inaugurations ... the president doesn't select the poet laureate. That's up to the Supreme Court ... best-selling poet -- Jewel -- as poet laureate because she wasn't named Bob. At ...

Transcript: Poet Laureate Position of New Jersey Abolished
The O'Reilly Factor (Fox News Network);  July 8, 2003 ;     700+ words ... ... FACTOR follow-up segment tonight, the poet laureate of New Jersey, Amiri Baraka, is finally ... general assembly voted to eliminate the poet laureate position in that state. Baraka, you ... die in the streets? AMIRI BARAKA, POET LAUREATE: Absolutely. O'REILLY: And why ...