Political Poetry: Bush and Kerry, in the Town Hall
Our political poets, Calvin Trillin and James Bowman, offer their take on Friday night's town hall-style presidential debate. Trillin is the author of Obliviously On He Sails: The Bush Administration in Rhyme. Bowman is a resident scholar at the Ethics and Public Policy Center in Washington.
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