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Suggested Host Intro: It may not cause a stir like a tour by the Rolling Stones, but keep an eye out this fall for what is billed to be the most ambitious poetry tour ever attempted. More than one hundred poets. Fifty days. fifty stops. one chartered bus.
The Poetry Bus Tour 2006 left Seattle September 4th and has already made stops across the northern U.S. and Canada.
Catie Talarski from member station WNPR caught up with the poets on a college tour in Western Massachusetts.
Suggested Host Intro: It may not cause a stir like a tour by the Rolling Stones, but keep an eye out this fall for what is billed to be the most ambitious poetry tour ever attempted. More than one hundred poets. Fifty days. fifty stops. one chartered bus.
The Poetry Bus Tour 2006 left Seattle September 4th and has already made stops across the northern U.S. and Canada.
Catie Talarski from member station WNPR caught up with the poets on a college tour in Western Massachusetts.
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Suggested Host Intro: It may not cause a stir like a tour by the Rolling Stones, but keep an eye out this fall for what is billed to be the most ambitious poetry tour ever attempted. More than one hundred poets. Fifty days. fifty stops. one chartered bus. The Poetry Bus Tour 2006 left Seattle September 4th and has already made stops across the northern U.S. and Canada. Catie Talarski from member station WNPR caught up with the poets on a college tour in Western Massachusetts.
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This story premiered on WNPR's Morning Edition on 10/10/06.
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This story runs 2:54, and has a suggested host intro.
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Emon Hassan
Posted on November 23, 2006 at 11:11 AM | Permalink
Review of Bus tour takes poetry on the road
With poets varying in age and experience, a group takes poetry on a bus tour to read and reach out to an audience, sometimes in unusual places.
I wish this piece was a longer one and covered a little bit of every aspect of the tour. It was meant as a news piece, I assume, which is fine as a time sensitive piece (the tour ended in October) but has left me unsatisfied because of it.