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Anton Chekhov and Mark Twain ...
From: The Washington Post
Date: 20070617
Author:Robert Pinsky
Anton Chekhov and Mark Twain are among the artists who studied the craft of writing while working as journalists. Willa Cather and Langston Hughes, too, met deadlines. The demands of concision, clarity and accuracy helped develop their gifts. But a poem reports about something different from news, even when the material is similar. That distinction is clear when a superb reporter such as Eliza Griswold, who has covered Afghanistan, Africa and Guantanamo, also excels as a poet.
The soldiers are children and the monkey's young.
He clings to my leg, heart against calf --
a throat filling, ...
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