Congratulations …

… Joy Harjo becomes first Native American named U.S. poet laureate | CANVAS Arts. (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)

The head of the Library of Congress’ poetry and literature center, Robert Casper, told the AP that laureates are encouraged to focus on “poems and the way they work,” including politically. During her interview, Harjo declined to talk about Trump directly, and said instead that “everything is political.”

Well. for her and a lot of others. But some of us think politics pollutes just about everything it comes into contact with. I rather like her poems, though. She should stick to poetry, and let politics fend for itself. After all, being a poet hardly makes one an expert on statecraft.