The Day - Poet laureate's speech inappropriate for swearing-in - News from southeastern Connecticut
Published July 19. 2021 6:01PM Imagine being invited to give a keynote address for your alma mater's senior class. The big day comes; students and families file in. You rise to the microphone, but instead of celebrating their accomplishments you belittle them, call them lazy and underachieving. This is essentially what New London's poet laureate did at Chief Brian Wright's swearing-in ceremony July 14. With 200 in attendance, half of them cops, Joshua Brown denigrated us in a disgusting display of grandstanding. He told a story of a teen who recently received his permit and expressed fe...