NORTH CAROLINA POETS ON DISPLAY

How A Poem Happens blogsite is featuring one of my poems this week. Go to http://www.howapoemhappens.blogspot.com/.

Go to My Laureate's Lasso to see the student poems that won our Great Smoky Mountains Bookfair Poetry Contest. You will enjoy them!

There you can also keep up with the Poet of the Week (Glenda Beall) and new books by North Carolina poets, including Fred Chappell, Joseph Bathanti, L.B. Green, and Grey Brown, to name just a very few.


Thursday, June 4, 2009

THE BEST RESPONSE OF ALL


(photo credit: Stephen Crowley, NYT)

The best response that could be made to the email I featured yesterday is President Obama's speech in Egypt about which I just read in The New York Times onine. Here is a quote. The speech left me amazed that finally an American President could stand before an Islamic audience and deliver such words. How many decades overdue is this speech?

[The Iraq war was a ]“war of choice that provoked strong differences in my country and around the world.”

“Although I believe that the Iraqi people are ultimately better off without the tyranny of Saddam Hussein, I also believe that events in Iraq have reminded America of the need to use diplomacy and build international consensus to resolve our problems whenever possible.”

This is a speech worth reading and remembering.

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