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Friday, August 3, 2012

News of Contemporary Poets I Admire

Capturing the London Olympic Games

In today's Wall Street Journal, Arts & Entertainment section - Speakeasy blog- you will find poems from a former University of South Carolina professor and Poetry Initiative pioneer I greatly admire:  the one and only Kwame Dawes.  He's a masterful poet, as you will see.  We miss him here in South Carolina.

The lead-in to the poem du jour explains what he's up to on their pages:

"Throughout the 2012 London Olympic Games, Guggenheim fellowship-winning poet Kwame Dawes will be writing verses that capture the spirit of the day’s action, with a particular focus on the Jamaican team.
In his latest installment, he explores why gold-medal winning gymnast Gabby Douglas is so much more than a “Flying Squirrel.” (Can we retire that awful nickname please?)"

http://blogs.wsj.com/speakeasy/2012/08/03/so-much-more-than-a-flying-squirrel/