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09-03-2001

Analysis: Growing number of cities appoint poet laureates

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For millennia, leaders have appointed poets to mark the great events of civic life in this country. Institutional poets are mostly a new phenomenon. The first official US poet laureate, Robert Penn Warren, was named back...

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