Tuesday, April 23, 2013

News at Eleven: [Scott] Poole tells Here & Now's Robin Young

that he sees the pain involved in running a marathon as a metaphor for what's happening now.

"The fact that the marathoners push through that pain and conquer it inspires us and makes us hope for something better, and I think we're all just hoping the same exact thing for Boston right now," he said.

By Scott Poole:

To Run
 ~a prayer for Boston

from 90.9WBUR: Here & Now: Pacific Northwest Poet Pays Tribute To Boston
then The Press-Enterprise: UCR: Poems to head to Boston
then The Quad: Creative Submission: "A Runner's Day", a poem by Adam Vevang
then The New Yorker: Takes: A Boston Poem
then Democrat and Chronicle: Leo Roth: Poems hit home after bombings
then Los Angeles Times: Amanda Palmer posts 'A Poem for Dzhokhar' and responds to commenters

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