He said he particularly wanted to promote poetry in schools.
Only 10 poets have applied for the position, established last year to promote poetry in the state.
The laureate would be required to give at least two public readings a year and to otherwise promote poetry throughout the state.
Poet in the City specializes in promoting poetry to new audiences.
My job will be to go out and promote poets and poetry in Wisconsin.
The job title is borrowed from the British model; the brief is to promote poetry.
The job, he observes, offers more opportunity for promoting poetry than improving his own work.
The projects are likely to comprise the most sweeping effort to promote poetry in the history of the United States or any other country.
The aim is to promote poetry, and to make the paient's wait more pleasant.
His anthology was part of his ongoing efforts to promote distinctly American poetry.