Searching For Ted Kooser ~ a poet laureate

Today is a dark day for poetry. Rus Bowden of Poetry & Poets in Rags broke the story at SplashHall Poetry late last night. I figured this is great, I will cover this story for the next couple days. After all this is a great event, isn't it?

Well that was late last night and after sending emails to a few blogging friends and suggesting it as a story for the good people at BoingBoing, supposing the holy grail for the Great Blogosphere, I went to bed.

This morning I got up at 5:30 am, fixed a cup of my organic coffee, turned on my computer and opened up my new email toy Mozilla Thunderbird and checked my email for any response to my announcement of our, USA, new Poet Laureate Ted Kooser. There was one out of about twelve, a young lady from Wales, Ivy Alvarez, who seemed as enthused as me. I figured the others would come shortly. Next I opened up my usual two "tabbed browsers" Mozilla Firefox and MyIE2 now known as "Maxthon" and began my update search for news on Poet Laureate Ted Kooser.

First I went to BoingBoing, nothing there 'sigh', there was a story about crapping, DVD's, Olympic brand-whoring and Big backpacks are bad news, I guess all more important and interesting than a new poet laureate from the Great Plains, the Heart of America so-to-speak. Next I went to

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