Tod Marshall
In part two of four Chris Maccini shares reflections from Tod Marshall and those who have been impacted by his service as Poet Laureate.
Tod Marshall reflects in written form, in his article in The Inlander.
This program first aired in February, 2018
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Driving past the ball fields near my house the other evening, I experienced waves of nostalgia, the stabby kind, the âaw, gee, shucksâ heartwarming kind, worthy of a Hallmark Channel Movie. You know for certain springâs arrived when the daffodils push themselves out of the hard, cold earth, … More Headlines
Washington state names its first Native American poet laureate
A member of the Lummi Nation, Bellingham writer Rena Priest will bring attention to local poetry, climate change and the loss of vital natural resources.
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On the first day of National Poetry Month, Bellingham-based Rena Priest is named the new Washington State Poet Laureate. She ll be a statewide ambassador for poetry during a two-year term. (Hillary Cagey)
After years of entering poetry contests and submitting to literary journals, Rena Priest had developed a habit: She would slip a copy of a New Yorker cartoon into the envelope along with her work. The image showed a car with a driver and passenger stuck in a sea of traffic. The caption: “Try honking again.”
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When Gonzaga University professor Tod Marshall began helping to plan the university s 4th Annual Race and Racism Lecture, he decided to do something different. The former state poet laureate wanted to include as many people as possible after a summer of racial justice protests and a contentious election. So he reached out to local teachers to engage high school students in advance of Wednesday s lecture.
The guest for this year’s Race and Racism Lecture at Gonzaga is poet and Yale University professor Claudia Rankine. Tod Marshall says the choice to invite Claudia Rankine to speak had a lot to do with her 2014 book,
Young Kwak photo Claire Miller and 13-year-old Labrador Dewey were both zapped by an electrified metal vault cover in downtown Spokane.
At the creaky old age of 13, Dewey isn t very agile anymore. He s got bad hips. So the black Labrador retriever a former dog-treat-box model couldn t leap away. Instead, he froze there, on a metal vault cover on the Riverfront Park sidewalk across from Spokane City Hall. He just started
howling in pain, says Claire Miller, girlfriend of Dewey s owner. He was looking at us, like,
help me, do something. She could see his front paws scramble like he was trying to move forward, but his back legs had collapsed.