What is the poet laureate in the time of Trump? I recall thinking back very clearly about this question when Amiri Baraka wrote “The Day they Blew Up America” an interesting, inflammatory, and sometimes hateful poem that “cost” him his job as poet laureate of New Jersey. If memory serves, he said no when they asked him to resign. I forget what happened next, but this would have been when Democrat John Corsine was governor. So now, we have Tracy K Smith as poet laureate […]