Verse Responder, Leon Freilich, who was himself a candidate for the poet laureate position, filed this report on today’s appointment of poet Tina Chang.

Park Slope’s own Tina Chang has been appointed Brooklyn poet laureate.  She’s lived in the Slope for 10 years.  A native of Queens, she’s the first woman poet laureate ever to serve the borough–a queen of quatrains.

Marty Markowitz told the Daily News of his choice, and one of its reporters called me for my heartbroken response.  Of course as a born son of Brooklyn baptized by the Dodgers and orphaned when the team deserted us for the lure of tinsel palm trees,
I had to say on behalf of myself and the others who failed  to make the cut, “We wuz robbed!