Hey hey hey! You poetry-o-philes out there (to use the technical Latin term) will be excited to hear America has a new poet laureate: Kay Ryan! Congratulations, Kay! We can only hope she will use her awesome powers responsibly.
Of course, we're all familiar with the ethical travails of some of our earlier poet laureates. There was Ted Kooser, who stained the office with his last-minute pardons of notorious poetry offenders like J.J. Redick. There was the infamous Robert Hass, convicted of selling top-secret Department of Defense limericks to the Chinese Special Poetry Services. And Mark Strand, forced to resign after the appearance of the "Smoking Pun" tape. Criminals all! We can only hope Kay Ryan will restore honor and dignity to the post of poet laureate.
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