I don't suppose any of the major bookmakers are laying odds...?
Frederick Pollack wrote:
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Barry Alpert"
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> Sent: Tuesday, May 20, 2008 7:55 AM
> Subject: Re: what is it?
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> Fifteen candidates will be selected by Gioia, Simic, and previous
> consultants. The Librarian of
> Congress, James Billington, will make his final selection from that
> list. Place your bets now. I'm
> guessing Jorie Graham, but I was wrong about Frank Bidart last year.
>
> Barry Alpert
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>
> My wife and I have been planning to emigrate if McCain wins. If he
> becomes president AND Jorie Graham is Poet Laureate, we're outta
> here!!! --- Could I fit into Vancouver or Auckland? Could I learn at
> my advanced age to be polite, wait for the Walk sign, etc.? Oy.
>
> As for poetry: I'm impressed with Dominic's definition. I was going
> to say that poetry is the continuation of *politics by other means.
> And philosophy's jester.
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Tad Richards
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The moral is this: in American verse,
The better you are, the pay is worse.
--Corey Ford
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