I don't know that there's an obligation, but I'm sorry a popular poet
and great communicator like Hall feels that way. It has become a
mini-bully pulpit, and I don't see that as a bad thing, even if it
doesn't fully represent the poets who make rebuses.
Barry Alpert wrote:
> During his inauguration last fall,, Donald Hall made it clear that reading
> with his British counterpart would be his major initiative during his reign
> as poet laureate. Personally, I've been amazed at how much more mass
> visibility the U.S. figureheads have garnered since the title "consultant
> in poetry" was replaced by "poet laureate". Barry Alpert
>
>
> <http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-
> dyn/content/article/2007/05/11/AR2007051100022.html>
>
>
> <http://www.loc.gov/poetry/events.html>
>
>
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Tad Richards
http://www.opus40.org/tadrichards/
http://opusforty.blogspot.com/
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