[New-Poetry] Dead Poet Walking

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Some years ago I read a book of poems (published by Wesleyan?) by a poet named Steven Tood Booker who was on Florida's death row. Anyone heardof him or know what happened to him? 


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http://uk.reuters.com/article/lifestyleMolt/idUKT20502120080411
Death row poet executed in Japan

Fri Apr 11, 2008 2:32am BST? Email | Print | Share| Single Page| Recommend (0) [-] Text [+] By Isabel Reynolds


TOKYO (Reuters Life!) - A convicted murderer who turned to writing poetry for solace while on death row was among four prisoners executed in Japan on Thursday.


Kaoru Akinaga, who was found guilty of two 1989 murders as well as fraud, drugs and arms offences, wrote to a Japanese poetry society in 2004, asking to be allowed to study and write "tanka" short verse from his prison cell


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