| | Wed, 20 Aug 2008 06:00

Wednesday's Poem: "Thus Spake the Mockingbird" by Barbara Hamby from Babel. Wednesdsay's Literary Notes: It's the birthday of the poet Edgar Albert Guest, born in Birmingham, England, in 1881. He spent most of his life in Detroit, and he is the first and only poet laureate of Michigan. After his father died, Guest dropped out of high school to work full time at the Detroit Free Press, where he went from copy boy to reporter. He wrote poems that were syndicated in over 300 American newspapers, and these verses were called "Breakfast Table Chat." Even though Guest was the author of more than 11,000...

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