Some of us needed another reason to vote for Barack Obama…Brother E (Ethelbert Miller author of E-Notes), sent me a note today about the Presidential Candidates Policies on the Arts.
Although i don’t necessary look to leaders on this scale to really be advocates for the arts, i do think it is significant when an elected official (stolen, presumptive or otherwise) takes a position , even if it is just in rhetoric. I think just hearing it said can on that kind of platform can reinvigorate local arts communities, and give us (artists and culture workers) the leverage we need to lean on our local governments….
Anyway enough, blahblah from me read this, and forward
Poet Laureate of Carrboro, NC 2019 -2022 / 2019 Academy of American Poets Laureate Fellow