Robert Pinsky, who served as poet laureate from 1997 to 2000, launched the Favorite Poem Project, through which more than eighteen thousand Americans shared their favorite poems. Prior poet laureates have used the role in myriad ways, as Poets & Writers noted: The poet laureate position comes with minimal strings - “no required sonnets on the occasion of Donald Trump’s birthday, etc.,” notes the Post‘s Ron Charles - and arms Smith with a $35,000 stipend, plus a separate travel budget. She will continue to live in New Jersey with her family, according to the Washington Post. Smith, the director of creative writing at Princeton University, will launch her term with a reading in September at the Library of Congress, where she will have an office. Smith will be the nation’s 22nd poet laureate, commencing her one-year term in the fall. The Library of Congress announced on Wednesday that Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Tracy K.
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