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Report from the Director

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Eric Staley, AWP Executive Director
The fall AWP Board of Directors meeting was held in Norfolk, October 7-8, preceded by and overlapping with the week-long 5th Annual Old Dominion University Literary Festival. AWP has coordinated its fall meeting with the Festival since 1978 so that Board members could serve as participants at little cost to the Festival sponsors. This year James Tate, Lisel Mueller, and Ann Stanford of the Board joined Ken Kesey, Allen Ginsberg, William Warner and Raymond Carver for readings.
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Teaching Writing

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Michael Berryhill
Unlike Walt Whitman, who dropped journalism and became a poet, I am a poet who has turned to the teaching and occasional practice of Journalism. I haven't had to abandon poetry because nothing in its writing is incompatible with journalism. Good writing in poetry has more in common with good writing in journalism than it does with bad writing in poetry.
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