U.S. Poet Laureate Gets Second Term
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Ted Kooser, winner of this year’s Pulitzer Prize for poetry, has been appointed to a second one-year term as U.S. poet laureate.
The American poet laureate, named by the librarian of Congress, does not write poems on public events as does his British counterpart, who is appointed for life. He performs a minimum of official duties so he can pursue his own ideas to promote poetry.
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