POET LAUREATE BRINGS CIVILITY, CLASS TO AN INCREASINGLY UNCIVIL LANGUAGE.(OPINION)

From: Wisconsin State Journal (Madison, WI) | Date: July 1, 2001 | Copyright information

Byline: John Leacock

A quiet change of power has taken place in Washington, D.C. No, nothing about the Bush administration this time. Billy Collins is taking over from Stanley Kunitz, becoming the nation's 11th poet laureate.

Poet laureate? Well, it's not quite the subject of Washington intrigue. No CIA or FBI moles, or China connection here. And definitely no budget-busting pork. This is about words, and words alone.

At 95 years old, Kunitz served ...

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