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...first official U.S. Poet Laureate was Robert Penn Warren, appointed on February 26, 1986. Since then we have had: Richard Wilbur, Howard Nemerov, Mark Strand, Joseph Brodsky, Mona Van Duyn, Rita Dove and Robert Hass. The Laureates usually seize on some civic issue to chat up, whether it be education, literacy or city poetry...
...with Dove, whose qualifications are beyond dispute, even though she satisfies all the demands of political correctness. At 40 Dove is the youngest person, second woman (after Mona Van Duyn) and first African-American to be chosen as poet laureate since the position was created eight years ago. "She was the absolutely perfect choice," says Gwendolyn Brooks, the only other black woman to win a Pulitzer Prize for poetry. "She can be brightly irreverent, carefully humorous and mercilessly inclusive. She has it in her to become a great poet...
...MacArthur Foundation wasn't alone in hurdling gender barriers last week. For the first time since the U.S. began naming a poet laureate, in 1986, the position has gone to a woman: Mona Van Duyn, 71. Van Duyn, a 1991 Pulitzer prizewinner, has often written about human relationships, drawing on her 48 years of wedlock to versify about "the complexities, bumps and humor of marriage...
...time in the literary jungle. First blood was drawn when the National Book Awards' fiction judges refused to list Erich Segal's bestseller Love Story. Poet Allen Ginsberg, one of the five poetry judges, made known his disgust with his fellow panelists' selection of Mona Van Duyn's To See, To Take by burning incense during the award announcements and castigating the choice as "ignominious, insensitive and mediocre." Miss Van Duyn riposted with a metaphor about a rest-room wall covered with dirty words along with a heart enclosing the names of lovers. "I notice...
...John Louis Newell Jr. of Brookline; Avery Sherburne Peabody of West Newton; Perry Rogers Pease of Hempstead, L. I., N. Y.; Hovey Edward Slayton Jr. of Manchester, N. H.; Harold Bright Sears of Chestnut Hill; Oscar Moore Shaw of Washington, D. C.; Alvan George Smith of Medford; John Van Duyn Southworth of Syracuse, N. Y.; Henry Millard Stevens of Cambridge; Frederick Benjamin Swarts of St. Louis, Mo.; Charles Folsom Walcott of Cambridge; Daniel Bertsch Wentz Jr. of Wyncote...