The lyrical Democrat
http://www.guardian.co.uk/g2/story/0,,2044996,00.html
This week two poems by Barack Obama, published in a student magazine
when he was 19, came to light. So did the US presidential candidate
miss his true calling? Fellow poet Ian McMillan gives his expert
verdict
Thursday March 29, 2007
The Guardian
We all have poems hidden away somewhere that we wrote when we were 19.
It's a rite of passage, the teenage poem, like the first pint or the
first kiss. And like the first pint or the first kiss, teenage poems
are often sloppy and lukewarm and not as satisfying as they ought to
be.
Two of Barack Obama's poems were found in a literary review published
in spring 1982 by Occidental College, a Los Angeles seat of learning
that Obama briefly attended. The magazine was called Feast, because
student literary magazines are always called things like that. Unless
they're called something like Ashes, or something like Trombone Eggs.
"Occidental College"
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