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Article: Snap poetry quiz.(Editorials)(And the new U.S. poet laureate is ....)(Editorial)
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- The Register Guard (Eugene, OR)
- Article date:
- June 15, 2006
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Byline: The Register-Guard
Quick, name the next poet laureate of the United States. Don't know?
That's OK. The name of the current poet laureate will suffice. Still stumped? How about the name of the first U.S. poet laureate? And who decides who gets to be poet laureate? And what exactly is it that poet laureates do besides rest on their laureates?
Enough questions. Time for some answers:
The next poet laureate of the United States is Donald Hall, a gruff New Hampshire native whose sparse, Frostian poems about life and death have graced American literature for seven decades. More on Hall later.
The current poet laureate is Ted ...