I love this idea!  FM Fats points to this article in the New York Times about the growing number of growing municipalities that have their own poet laureate.  Here’s a blurb…

Fresno joins a rapidly growing list of cities and towns across the nation with their own official bards; in just the past few months, not only have Houston and Los Angeles established poet laureateships but so have Boise, Idaho; Key West, Fla.; McAllen, Tex.; and San Mateo County, near San Francisco.

For many poets, and those in the poetry business, the popularity of poets laureate — those who labor over words to sing a community’s virtues or plumb its psyche in an age defined by Twitter messages — is a pleasant surprise. Why now, though, remains something of a mystery.

Come on.  Decatur is home to the current U.S. Poet Laureate.  We have a whole dang festival that would serve as the perfect backdrop for the annual announcement.

What do you all think?

Dear Daren Wang…