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| rus bowden
Valued Member Username: rusbowden Post Number: 137 Registered: 12-2003 |
Dear Poetry Fans, Poetry & Poets in Rags A few articles spent time as our headliner, while I put this week's list together, a list of eleven articles plus a special section on recent deaths. One included an imprisoned poet freed in Saudi Arabia, another about a poetry project of epic proportions in VietNam, but our headliner contains a poem by twelve-year-old--you'll see. Whenever I can bring you a poem, preferably with commentary, that a newspaper has brought to its local readers, that's what I'm looking for really. And that's the spirit of Ted Kooser's weekly series American Life in Poetry, what Dan Kaufman so often brings us in Forward, what David Biespiel brings us monthly, and there are more, an Ogden Nash poem, a couple by Kooser. And more poetry and poets in rags for you this week. Another cluster of poetry deaths, so another special 5-article section: Recent Deaths. Yours, Rus Our Links: Poetry & Poets in Rags IBPC Home IBPC Newswire | ||
| Michael MV
Senior Member Username: michaelv Post Number: 961 Registered: 11-2003 |
Hi Rus, Although journalism was his calling, I thought here would be a good place to remember also the the creative spirit of Peter Jenning. I like the way Barbara Walter phrased it as she was remembering him Monday's TODAY: “No one could ad lib like Peter,” said Barbara Walters. "When he ad libbed, it was poetry." “Sometimes he drove me crazy because he knew every detail. ... He just died much too young.” (^^ and attention to details - the tell-tell signs - is an essential resource for all writers). Also: He was, as Barbara Walters said on air last night, according to USA Today, the most natural of the anchormen; in times of crisis and breaking news, he could effortlessly keep it all together —his broadcast, the story, himself. Rest in Peace |
