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Article: Poetry market jitters.(humor)
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- The New Leader
- Article date:
- March 10, 1997
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When Franklin Delano Roosevelt first proposed poetry subsidies in 1933, he could hardly have imagined that what was intended as emergency relief for genteel lady poets in a few small towns would balloon into one of the biggest items in the Federal budget. According to the Concord Coalition, by the year 2035 as much as 85 per cent of every working American's paycheck may go to supporting a bard. Warns Coalition co-founder Warren Rudman, "Poetry is destroying our children's future."
Despite the urgency of the issue, neither Democrats nor Republicans want to be the first to propose major cuts in this popular entitlement. "The poetry subsidy is the Third Rail of ...