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Profile: Short poems still sweet to fans of the form

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From: All Things Considered (NPR)
Date: 20051107
Author:MELISSA BLOCK

MELISSA BLOCK
All Things Considered (NPR)
11-07-2005
Profile: Short poems still sweet to fans of the form

Host: MELISSA BLOCK
Time: 8:00-9:00 PM

MELISSA BLOCK, host:

You may know him for the "Red Badge of Courage," but Stephen Crane was a poet, too, and for those who try their trade at the short form, he's a hero. Yesterday at the Bowery Poetry Club in New York, short poem aficionados gathered to celebrate creative minimalism at the Stephen Crane Festival of the Short Poem. Emily Botein met up with one of the organizers of the event.

EMILY BOTEIN reporting:

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