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MARCH 9, 2021 21-132 RESOLUTION
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PURPOSE: CREATION OF AN OSHKOSH POET LAUREATE
INITIATED BY: MAYOR LORI PALMERI / OSHKOSH PUBLIC LIBRARY BOARD
OF TRUSTEES
WHEREAS, poetry tells the history of human feeling and can sustain the emotional
memory of a community; and
WHEREAS, poetry allows us to perceive our experience with greater richness and
complexity; and
WHEREAS, poetic language can carry us to the frontiers of imagination and help
us articulate our vision of the future; and
WHEREAS, knowledge of poetic traditions allows us to know more about our own
culture and can serve as a passport to the cultures of others; and
WHEREAS, an increasing number of cities have created Poet Laureate positions
as a way to honor a local poet and recognize the place that poetry has in a community’s
cultural tradition and civic life.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED by the Common Council of the City of
Oshkosh that the Mayor working with the Oshkosh Public Library Board establish and
sustain a position of Oshkosh Poet Laureate.
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the ceremonial position of Oshkosh Poet
Laureate will be appointed by the Mayor of the City of Oshkosh, upon recommendation
of a selection committee established by the Oshkosh Public Library Board, and approved
by the Common Council.
MARCH 9, 2021 21-132 RESOLUTION
CONT’D
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the Oshkosh Public Library will support the
position of Oshkosh Poet Laureate by developing policies and procedures, and by serving
as the fiscal agent responsible for transferring financial distributions from any source of
funding that may be established to support future Oshkosh Poets Laureate.