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  • A-verse to a snub White House disinvitation prompts poetry readings at GC&SU

    02/13/2003 7:52:06 AM PST · by eyespysomething · 6 replies · 245+ views
    The Macon Telegraph ^ | 2-13-03 | Rob Peecher
    MILLEDGEVILLE - Laura Bush disinvited poets to the White House, so Wednesday poets sat on the front lawn at Georgia College & State University. The first lady's decision to cancel a poetry symposium first scheduled for Wednesday afternoon launched what GC&SU English professor Martin Lammon called a "grass-roots campaign" of poets across the country to stage poetry readings Wednesday. About 30 students attended the reading and sat in the sunshine while students and faculty read their own works and the works of others. Not all of the poems read by students and faculty at GC&SU were anti-war political statements, but...