Notes for a Poem about News in Excelsior by Vivian Wagner

Notes for a Poem about News

Vivian Wagner

headline           information           enlightenment
          revelation
account
                    advice           knowledge
     announcement
                    broadcast          dispatch
          data
     disclosure           intelligence recognition
                              message
     report           description
rumor           communiqué
          statement           narration
story
                              word           discovery      particularization
          bulletin
     cable release
                    cognizance recital
          communication hearsay
                                                                       copy
leak      scandal
     flash

Vivian Wagner is an associate professor of English at Muskingum University in New Concord, Ohio. She's the author of a memoir, Fiddle: One Woman, Four Strings, and 8,000 Miles of Music (Citadel-Kensington), and a poetry collection, The Village (Aldrich Press-Kelsay Books). Visit her website at www.vivianwagner.net.

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