AmericanPapist Comments
Sad. No doubt the bad-taste jokes will start now; they always do.
Funny, a tragedy like this often brings forth volumes of poetry as catharsis, nearly all of it terrible. The classic example is the reams of dreck written after the Titanic went down.
This is the same woman who, in a very similar poem titled "I Am Cincinnati", last fall called then-Republican nominee for Ohio Governor, Ken Blackwell, a "son-of-a-bitch" and "political whore". She recited her poem at a non-political (and billed as "family friendly") statue dedication ceremony in downtown Cincinnati.
Classy, this one.
I emailed Carolyn Rude, the head of the English Department, to complain about the appropriateness of the poem and linked to American Papist and a FrontPageMag article. Here is part of her response:
"By a margin of about 250:1 according to responses that have come to the English Department, most people are grateful for its words of courage and hope.
Not everyone can like every poem, and I respect that."
That doesn't jibe with the negative responses I'm getting about Nikki's poem. Perhaps we should let ourselves be heard:
Carolyn.Rude@vt.edu
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