Tag Archives: fall 1999

Paul Metcalf (1917-1999): A Eulogy

Headlands: The Marin Coast at the Golden GateText by Paul Metcalf University of New Mexico Press by Lucia Berlin I have looked at this book often since Paul Metcalf died to bring back the day I spent walking in the Marin Headlands with him. Paul had come out to the Arts center there for the […]

David Lee Pitches Poetry

by Jeffrey Shotts An unlikely figure rose to the mound to throw out the first pitch at the Saint Paul Saints baseball game on Friday, August 27, in Saint Paul, Minnesota. Utah's Poet Laureate, David Lee, had not thrown a pitch in an official arena for thirty years, when he played semiprofessional baseball as the […]