Tuesday, June 26, 2007

News at Eleven: Everything about Maxwell Corydon Wheat Jr.'s

poet laureate coronation yesterday was different from the last effort to bestow the title upon him.

Standing in front of about 100 adoring fans in Roslyn Harbor, Wheat accepted the title from his fellow poets instead of from lawmakers and vowed to boost poetry's profile in Nassau County and on Long Island.

from Newsday: Unofficially, controversial poet gets laureate title

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