COLUMBIA — Gov. Matt Blunt named Ashland writer Walter Bargen as Missouri’s first official poet laureate on Tuesday. Bargen was notified of his selection by phone at 10 a.m. on Monday. He said being named Missouri Poet Laureate is “like a cherry on the whipped cream.”
Ashland writer named Missouri's first poet laureate
Tuesday, January 8, 2008 | 7:20 p.m. CST;
updated 11:19 p.m. CDT, Monday, July 21, 2008
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