Barbara Bush Censors Poets

[dtriche <dtriche@LAUSD.K12.CA.US>]

Barbara Bush had planned a poetry symposium for February 12, but when over
half the poets she invited to contribute works wrote anti-war poems she
cancled the event.  Read the story on the front page of the January 31, Daily
Variety.
Apparently she is only willing to provide a forum for poets who conform to the
shrubs brand of dead or alive politics.  So much for artistic freedom.  I
wonder if anyone wrote a poem about her husband avoiding Nam and going AWOL
while in the reserves?  Is she is still a member of any teacher or librarian
organizations, I hope she is censured.

David N. Triche
Emerson MS, LAUSD
1650 Selby Ave.
Los Angeles, CA 90024
(310)470-0616
dtriche@lausd.k12.ca.us

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