[New-Poetry] Journalist - Poets

[David Graham]

David Tucker springs to mind--his book of poems Late for Work  
contains a # of poems about his occupation.  I believe Stephen Dobyns  
put in some time as a reporter, too.  Here's one of Tucker's:

Today’s News

A slow news day, but I did like the obit about the butcher
who kept the same store for 50 years. People remembered
when his street was sweetly roaring, aproned
with flower stalls and fish stands.
The stock market wandered, spooked by presidential winks,
by micro-winds and the shadows of earnings. News was stationed
around the horizon, ready as summer clouds to thunder--
but it moved off and we covered the committee meeting
at the back of the state house, sat around on our desks
then went home early. The birds were still singing,
the sun just going down. Working these long hours
you forget how beautiful the early evening can be,
the big houses like ships turning into the night,
their rooms piled high with silence.

—by David Tucker.  Late for Work.  Houghton Mifflin, 2006.

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On Jul 20, 2008, at 1:29 PM, amy king wrote:

> Does anyone know of any journalists who are also poets?  Or poets  
> who happen to be journalists?
>
> Thanks!
>
> Amy
>

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