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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...hoping to talk to someone who did makethe decision to become a poet," said Chang, who istrying to decide between English or Literature andEconomics for her concentration...

Author: By Sarah J. Schaffer, | Title: Creative Writing Courses' Demand Exceeds Supply | 2/8/1995 | See Source »

...High Road to Taos, Edmunds's first collection, was chosen by poet Donald Hall as a 1993 National Poetry Series winner. His poems have previously appeared in The New Yorker, Southwest Review and anthologies of young poets...

Author: By Virginia S.K. Loo, | Title: Edmunds Treads Tired Road to Taos | 2/2/1995 | See Source »

...later in the poem, the speaker insists to his lover, "I want you." At this point the reader may be tempted to respond, "I don't think so." But perhaps a fistfull of red-dirt and a few dead roses would more adequately convey her regrets in the poet's own language...

Author: By Virginia S.K. Loo, | Title: Edmunds Treads Tired Road to Taos | 2/2/1995 | See Source »

Edmunds's passion, painted in memory and reflection, soon dries to an uninteresting shade of melancholy. His inability to seem wholly present in his own memories weakens the collection. To move a reader, the poet must seem able to move himself, if only to show signs of life...

Author: By Virginia S.K. Loo, | Title: Edmunds Treads Tired Road to Taos | 2/2/1995 | See Source »

...address to the congregation. Rev. Jeffrey L. Brown, pastor of Cambridge's Union Baptist Church, recalled the famous words of poet Langston Hughes, asking "What happens to a dream deferred...

Author: By Leondra R. Kruger, | Title: Hundreds Gather to Remember King | 1/18/1995 | See Source »

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