Poetic News

 

“It is difficult to get the news from poems yet men die miserably every day for lack of what is found there.”

 

—William Carlos Williams (1883-1963), Pulitzer Prize-winning poet, writer & physician, “Asphodel, That Greeny Flower,” 1955. (Thanks to alert WORDster Wesley Chesbro)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

• Editorial Comment: There’s more news in poems than you’d think.

 

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