Kelly Cherry has been appointed Poet Laureate of Virginia. She will serve from 2010-2012.
She was preceeded by Claudia Emerson and Carolyn Foronda, both incredible poets! Cherry is a wonderful follow-up in this line of poets.
a poem from the Cortland Review...
She Doesn't Care What you Say About Her,
Just so Long as you Spell Her Name Right
Would she have fame?
Would she take tea and have fame with her tea?
Or roll a joint, famously?
She imagined approval, applause
A man not bored by her voracity.
In the house to be
Furnished in the future,
There would be intricate, quiet rugs,
Acres of books,
Someone playing the cello.
A late supper after the concert or play...
Outside, the people were clamoring for autographs.
The Madonna Syndrome:
Later, they went home,
And the man who was not bored
By the fact that she loved him
Allowed her to write her name
On his balls with the tip
Of her tongue as many times
As it took to make sure
He got it right.
*******************gotta love that, right??? Thank you Poetry Society of Virginia and Governor Whasisname.
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