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Every two years, the governor selects a poet to become the next NC Poet Laureate whose job is to teach, judge, counsel, and cheerlead, using poetry to connect people. Governor McCrory recently appointed an unqualified individual to the position causing a backlash from the literary community. Following the uproar, Valerie Macon resigned after only one week on the job. The past four Poet Laureates discuss the importance of the position and have offered to help McCrory select the next Poet Laureate.
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13714
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Seeger profiles Cathy Smith Bowers, North Carolina's newest poet laureates.
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Kathryn Stripling Byer is the new poet laureate for the state of North Carolina. She is the state's fifth poet laureate and the first women to hold the position since its creation seventy years ago. A native of Georgia, she came to North Carolina at the age of twenty-one to study creative writing at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. Byer has received a number of awards for her poetry including the Lamont Prize in 1992 for the best second book by an American poet and the Southeast Booksellers Association Best Book of the Year in Poetry Award in 2003.
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Our State
(NoCar F 251 S77), Vol. 73 Issue 5, Oct 2005,
p46-48, 50, 52-53, il, por
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28924
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Fred Chappell was selected in December by Governor Hunt to be North Carolina’s poet laureate, the state’s highest literary honor. Chappell teaches at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, and has written a dozen books of verse, two volumes of stories, one of literary criticism and seven novels.
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This is a transcription of a speech made at a 1981 memorial service and opening of the James Larkin Pearson memorial Library in Wilkes. Born in 1879, James Larkin Pearson was a mountaineer from Wilkes whose poetry reflected his humble surroundings. Pearson was the poet laureate of North Carolina from 1953 until his death in 1981. The speech is given by a friend and relates anecdotes of Pearson.
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James Larkin Pearson was North Carolina's poet laureate for the 21st year in 1974. Of the approximate three hundred poems Pearson composed, he said three may stand the test of time and believed this to be a good average. The article features those three poems.
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Governor William B. Umstead named James Larkin Pearson of Guilford College the Poet Laureate of North Carolina on August 4, 1953. Pearson, a native of Wilkes County, has published five volumes of verse.
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Dr. Joseph Halstead, better known as \"Dom Placid,\" is North Carolina's poet laureate, although he was born in Brooklyn, New York. He came to the state in 1921 as teacher of English and Greek at Belmont Abbey College. His writing is not limited only to poetry; he has written plays, book reviews for the Charlotte Observer, and has a radio show called \"Poetry Corner.\" The duties of a poet laureate are to extol the virtues of his state in poetic form and encourage the writing of poetry.
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