Minicast D1: The Poet Laureate of Kiribati
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English - February 03, 2021 05:05 - 12 minutes - 13.6 MB - ★★★★★ - 292 ratingsPolitics News Comedy gin history jeopardy omnibus politics progressive tacos trivia Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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In 1996 a loutish young Briton got drunk and, on a lark, asked a tiny island nation if he could be their poet laureate. Mind you, the nation has no poet laureate and doesn't really do European-style poetry at all. That's ok, he doesn't know how to write poetry anyway.
So the government of Kiribati said yes, and then, his bluff called, the young man said yes, and then hilarity ensued.
Inspired by America's recent fascination with former National Youth Poet Laureate Amanda Gorman, who is also the only poet I know by name right now.
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