A bucolic county in upstate New York appointed a poet laureate. Why was she fired shortly after?
- Posted on May 1, 2026
- By The Guardian
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A bucolic county in upstate New York appointed a poet laureate. Why was she fired shortly after?
Esther Cohen was removed as Greene county’s poet laureate just weeks after the appointment. It’s ‘emblematic of the assault on the arts writ large’, some say
