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A Blossoming Population of Poets
Mary McElveen, Alexandria's poet laureate, with her cat, Jake.
(By Gerald Martineau -- The Washington Post)
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I fill my tank;
The dashboard display shows this fuel will take me
Three hundred seventy-four miles.
A hundred eighty-seven miles
To Somewhere Else and back
Or nine back-and-forths to work,
With
Assorted errands.
Towns big and small seem to want poets laureate. San Francisco, Brooklyn, N.Y., Denver, Duluth, Minn., and Toronto have their own local bards, as do Point Arena, Calif., Cleveland Heights, Ohio, and Lancaster County, Pa.
Santa Fe, N.M., pays its laureate $5,000 a year through private donations. Three Oaks, Mich., expects theirs to compose something special for Flag Day. Boston is looking for one. And applications are now being accepted for a laureate to laud Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan.
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