Poetry on our radar screen

When I was in highschool, I was given the title of poet laureate. A small fish in a small pond, but I was really pleased with that honor and I wrote a lot of poems in those four years of English class and some were even published. We are going to be hearing a lot more about poetry. A $100 million gift will hopefully help make poetry more important in our world. Today the New York Times is reporting on what they are actually going to do with all that money. Poetry in the news...what a novel concept.