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- <text id=93TT1802>
- <title>
- May 31, 1993: Poetry in Motion
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1993
- May 31, 1993 Dr. Death: Dr. Jack Kevorkian
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- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- PEOPLE, Page 73
- Poetry in Motion
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- <body>
- <p>By GINIA BELLAFANTE
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- <p> An auspicious beginning it was not. RITA DOVE'S early childhood
- foray into creative writing, "The Rabbit with a Droopy Ear,"
- was hardly a signal of the talent to come. "It was about a rabbit
- who needed to get his ear straightened out in time for Easter.
- He hangs upside down from a tree to do it," jokes Dove, 40,
- who has been named the nation's youngest ever and first black
- poet laureate. A University of Virginia English professor and
- author of four books of poetry, Dove plans an active role as
- America's verse czar. "I will do whatever I can to promote poetry
- to the public," she says. "It's important to reduce the anxiety
- level many people experience when they hear the word poem."
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- </body>
- </article>
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