[Newspoetry] From PW Newsline:

[Mike Lehman]

So this is, like, government-issue Newspoetry?

Does it come in a green can or in one of those yellow packages that
resemble cluster bombs?

I guess writers are that much of a threat when the government has to
generate such material.
Mike

Spineless Books wrote:
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> Best of the Web: Writers State Department Payroll, Date Judith Regan
> 
> Four Pulitzer Prize winners, Michael Chabon, Robert Olen Butler,
> historian David Herbert Donald and Richard Ford; the American poet
> laureate, Billy Collins; two Arab-Americans, Naomi Shihab Nye and
> Elmaz Abinader; and Robert Pinsky, Charles Johnson, Bharati Mukherjee
> and Sven Birkerts--what do these writers have in common? They're all
> working for the State Department, according to the New York Times.
> 
> The writers have contributed to an anthology of essays edited by the
> State Department on the subject of being an American writer that will
> be distributed though American embassies abroad.
> 
> The article is online here:
> http://www.nytimes.com/2002/12/07/arts/07WRIT.html
> The essays can be read here:
> http://usinfo.state.gov/products/pubs/writers
>