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Newly discovered interview reveals surprising advice from Walt Whitman
From: AP Worldstream
Date: 20050506
Author:CHRIS NEWMARKER, Associated Press Writer
CHRIS NEWMARKER, Associated Press Writer
AP Worldstream
05-06-2005
Dateline: TRENTON, New Jersey
Walt Whitman is considered one of America's greatest men of letters, but he had some surprising advice for two aspiring scribes: Don't become a poet.
The advice is one of the tidbits Whitman left for posterity in an 1888 interview with the student newspaper at The New Jersey State Normal School, now called The College of New Jersey.
The interview was recently discovered by Nicole Kukawski, 21, a junior who sifted through old copies of The Signal while working on a literature paper about Whitman's ...
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