Walter Bargen

Sometimes, life just isn't fair. And the most talented among us get overlooked. For example, my good friend Tony Hooper emailed me last week with this lament: Dear Joanna, Walter Bargen narrowly edged me out to become Missouri's first Poet Laureate. I probably should have steered away from controversy in my poems, one of which began:I think that I shall never seeA state so fair as Missouri,I love her highways, streets, and roads;Some have … [Read more...] about News from My Little Corner of the World