Poetic Obituaries: By day, for more than three decades,

Joseph Frederick Awad was a man in a suit who brought Reynolds Metals Co.'s massive public-relations program to full blossom.

By night, he wrote hundreds of poems, often in longhand on legal pads and notebooks under the light above the kitchen table in his western Henrico County home.

Mr. Awad, inducted into the Virginia Communications Hall of Fame in 1992 and named Virginia's poet laureate in 1998, died Friday in a Henrico hospital after a brief illness.

from Richmond Times-Dispatch: Reynolds PR executive, poet Joseph Awad dies

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