Great Regulars: I felt extremely unlikely.

I didn't think it would ever happen. Usually the laureates are chosen from among the academic classes. I'm academic in the sense that I teach and have taught remedial writing skills for 33 years. But that isn't usually the group from whom the laureate is selected.

from Jeffrey Brown: PBS: Newshour: More Than a Weekly Poem: A Conversation and Reading With Poet Laureate Kay Ryan

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