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...Franklin once wrote, after purchasing The Pennsylvania Gazette, “We will write about kings, we will write about clergymen, we will write about governors and we will write about hoars, but nothing will bring this paper closer to the precipice of disaster than writing about poop.” Even in 1730, Mr. Franklin understood the danger of wielding the double-edged sword that Chris Schonberger handled with ninja-like deftness: that of human feces literature (“The Best Duece in the Land,” Magazine...
...least I could write iambic pentameter,” Kumin says. But Stegner was profoundly unimpressed. “Say it in flowers, but for god’s sake, don’t write any more poems,” Stegner told the Radcliffe first-year. The words stung...
...Kumin says that Sexton “gave me the courage to write openly about my feelings—I think I had been a rather academic, Latinate poet.” Kumin had become a formalist in part from her experience selling light verse to glossy magazines. As Sexton helped Kumin unwind, Kumin helped Sexton “see where she needed structure...
...Neurologically, the right side of her body has yet to recover fully. She has enough control of her hand to write her name, but she needs a computer to compose the poems and prose that she still produces so prodigiously. In the last scene of “Inside the Halo,” she triumphantly mounts Deuter for the first time since the accident nine months earlier. “We’re best friends,” she says of Deuter. “I was so grateful that he wasn’t hurt...
...Kumin joins the ranks of such past recipients as Yo-Yo Ma ’76, Jack Lemmon ’47, and John Updike ’54. Sixty-two years after a cocky English Department instructor told Kumin, “don’t write any more poems,” the University laud her for disregarding Stegner’s advice...