Well, about Tom Wayman
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>Introduced to this guy in 1996 via Stephen Dunn. Every time I have taught
>since I have brought in, distributed, and read aloud Wayman's "Did I Miss
>Anything?" With no evidence to support this, that has to be his most famous
>poem.
Not necessarily, in Canada, Ken. But then he's published about 16 books of
poetry here. And edited anthologies of 'Work Poetry'. And a lot of the
poems with 'Wayman' in them are funny -- at least to some... There's the
one with a half page title & just two lines, for example....
Doug
Douglas Barbour
Department of English
University of Alberta
Edmonton Alberta Canada T6G 2E5
(h) [780] 436 3320 (b) [780] 492 0521
http://www.ualberta.ca/~dbarbour/dbhome.htm
Imperceptibly the word spreads outward
to those in Portland, Oregon and Portland, Maine
stuffing their packages of poems
into the 10 p.m. mailbox slots"
'Wayman,' the news has it,
'Wayman's editing in Colorado.
All we can do is submit.'
Tom Wayman
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