NJ To Abolish Poet Laureate Job?

New Jersey’s governor tried to fire him, the state legislature has been debating ways to remove him. New Jersey lawmakers are angry at state poet laureate Amiri Baraka for his poem that “implies Israel had advance knowledge of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center.” After trying to oust him, now legislators are working on a plan to abolish the post of poet laureate altogether…