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Last Updated: May 24th, 2006 - 09:47:39 |
Letters
Cultural Genocide On NPR...Billy Collins, NY Poet Laureate – Hello?
On Friday, I received a commentary from St. Louis writer Chris Hayden, author of Vampyre Blues: The Passion of Varnado (Door of Kush 2004). I hope you will support his and my opposition to comments on NPR last week by New York Poet Laureate and former USA Poet Laureate Billy Collins. Collins remarks to host Terry Gross on the “Fresh Air” show, about African American poet Robert Hayden, are frighteningly inaccurate and seem bent on distancing Hayden’s genius from his awareness of the tragedies and triumphs of Black people. Collins states: “He wasn't very popular in the African American community because he did not write about race."
May 23, 2006,
10:33
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