Tuesday, August 07, 2012

News at Eleven: So when the Wall Street Journal made its pitch--

put together a poem per day, each inspired by the Olympic Games and, more specifically, the athletes from Jamaica, where [Kwame] Dawes grew up--he said yes.

"I'm going to be watching the Olympics anyway. I'm very interested in them. If something strikes me, I'll write about it."

A giant Mac monitor dominates his desk, filling his office in Lincoln with the games from London. And that's what they are. Games. With a world transfixed.

from Lincoln Journal Star: There once was a sports-loving poet
then Wall Street Journal: Speakeasy: The Ballad of Bolt
then Wall Street Journal: Speakeasy: For Those Golden Gymnasts
then Wall Street Journal: Speakeasy: Golden Things On Her Mind
then Wall Street Journal: Speakeasy: Ode to Beach Volleyball
then Wall Street Journal: Speakeasy: An Ode to the Lapped, the Losers and Olympic Silver Medalists
then Wall Street Journal: Speakeasy: A Quick Poem for the Fastest Woman Alive
then Wall Street Journal: Speakeasy: Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce, Between the Shot and the Roar
then Wall Street Journal: Speakeasy: Upon Discovering Commentary-Free Olympic Coverage on the Web (Poetry of the Games 4)

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