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Class Notes
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Numbers, Names and Faces
This issue’s corner photos introduce some
of the current and former participants in
the McNair Scholars program (see story
page 18). Here are the names that match
the faces on our pages.
2:
Frances ‘Frankie’ Palazzolo ‘03
3:
Kermit Williams ‘04
4:
Jeremy Rose ‘01
5:
Deny’s Hunter ‘02
6:
Jesusa Arnett ‘02
7:
Jason Owens ‘04
8:
Keira Johnson ‘04
9:
Andrew Guerrero ‘04
22: Lanitta Williams ‘04
23: Lisa Gregg ‘04
24: LaMont Mitchell ‘02
25: Lynette Thick ‘03
26: Jake Hunter ‘03
27: Kristin Reese ‘04
28: Robb Gafford ‘03
29: Lanetta Williams ‘04
30: ‘Tee’ Greer-Travis ‘03
31: Amanda Rainsberger ‘04
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Adrian
centers
Wassily Kandinsky. “Ezra Pound’s first book,
Personae, consisted entirely of Pound trying
different voices and techniques.”
book from other publishers shortly after being
notified of the University of Georgia award.
Past recipients of the Georgia Contemporary
Poetry award include several poets who
In addition to imitating the greats, Tod passes later won Pulitzer Prizes and National Book
on the advice of Horace: Don’t share any- Awards. Add this award to Tod’s impressive
thing with the public for ten years. “Dryden list of poems, essays, interviews, and book
and Pope shortened that to five years, but reviews published in many high profile journow we want to publish immediately. If I nals and David Hamilton’s praise, and one
could do it over, I’d have more patience along would assume some level of contentment or
assurance. But Tod still does not feel conthose lines.”
fident that he
Last March the
has conquered
Eastern Washthe world of
ington Univer“Breakfast”
publishing. On
sity Press pubthe contrary.
from Dare Say by Tod Marshall
lished Tod’s first
“When Dare
book, Range of
Snow on the sidewalk,
Say was
the Possible, a
elegant icicles
accepted for
compilation of
publication, I
interviews with
dangling from drain gutters.
realized that
American poets
This is not about the cold,
five years of
born between
obsessive
1941 and 1959.
only burnt toast,
tinkering with
He began the
those poems
more coffee brewing,
interview colhad left a big
lection in 1992,
and orange juice poured in a glass.
gap in my writnot as a book,
ing.” Although
These and the tinny clink
but as a way
Tod had been
to talk to poets
and clank of silverware
writing new
he admired. As
poems during
rinsed in the sink
the pieces were
that time, he
being
pubherald a gentle end
feels like a
lished in journovice as he
nals such as
to morning. Remember the sound
begins the
The American
of juice, bacon crackling
cycle once
Poetry Review,
again: writThe
Denver
in the pan. Remember the smooth sheen
ing poems,
Quarterly,
of fragile wings. Ours to touch.
sending them
The
Kenyon
out, collecting
Review, Quarterly West, and Willow Springs, the idea of a rejections, reworking, resending, and on and
book emerged. His editor recently proposed on.
a follow-up anthology of poetry to accompany
“When I received a GAP Grant from the
this book, with a November 2002 publicaWashington Artists Trust last spring, my first
tion date. The two books will be packaged
thought was ‘Great!’ My second thought
together and marketed as a textbook for
was, ‘Now I really have to do this. I have to
poetry classes, but Tod hopes the books will
really confront the blank page.’”
also be read by people interested in contemAnd there are other projects. He hopes to
porary American poetry.
“salvage” about half of his doctoral dissertaIn January, Tod received news that he had
tion, a collection of essays on 20th century
won the Georgia Contemporary Poetry
poetry and poetics, add some new material
Series Award, wh X