I've not seen the job description of the Poet Laureate of the United States (nor of the P. L. of Maine, or Brooklyn), but Pinsky's effort seemed to make me more aware of a poet laureate actually working.
Currently, Billy Collins is coming under fire from some quarters, but surely the jury has to be out on what he'll DO as a laureate.
How long has the office been available? What poets have held it, and more importantly, what poets have made it a useful post, not just a sinecure, a chance to browse the stacks in the Library of Congress.
Bob
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