Poetic Obituaries: Although he made his living with prose,

[Luix V.] Overbea, a Northwestern University graduate, had a volume of poems entitled "Poets on the Horizon" published in 1988. One of his poems, "Hometown," is engraved on a monument outside the Roxbury Crossing T station in Boston.

In 1989, Overbea left the newsroom for the Monitor's television activities, both hosting and helping produce a weekly urban affairs broadcast called "Inner City Beat."

from The Christian Science Monitor: Longtime Monitor writer Luix V. Overbea: an appreciation

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