This from Paul Lake at new-poetry re TOM PAULIN
>Date: Wed, 20 Nov 2002 11:55:46 -0600
>From: Paul Lake <[log in to unmask]>
>Subject: [New-Poetry] Harvard Re-invites poet
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>HARVARD REINVITES POET WHO WANTS JEWS "SHOT DEAD" [Kathryn Jean Lopez]
>After bad press (including by Tom Gross on NRO), Harvard's English
>Department disinvited poet Tom Paulin--from speaking on campus. They've
>reversed themselves.
>A highlight reel from Paulin: "They should be shot dead. I think they are
>Nazis, racists, I feel nothing but hatred for them...I can understand how
>suicide bombers feel. . . . I think attacks on civilians in fact boost
>morale."
Gabriel Gudding
Assistant Professor
Department of English
Illinois State University
Normal, IL 61790
office 309.438.5284
home 309.828.8377
http://www.pitt.edu/~press/2002/gudding.html
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