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I think that the job of poetry, its political job, is to refresh the idea of justice, which is going dead in us all the time.
I wrote my first play as extra credit for my fourth grade English class. 'Can Helen Stop Smoking' was a satire on the ill effects of cigarette smoking. My friend Vicki Haugabrook played as Helen and I directed the show. At the time, my brother Vince was leading the campaign to get our grandmother to
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| Fantasia Barrino, Musician (1984) |
| Frederic Bastiat, Economist (1801) |
| Vincent D'Onofrio, Actor (1959) |
| Laurence Fishburne, Actor (1961) |
| John Gay, Poet (1685) |
| Franz Halder, Soldier (1884) |
| Margery Allingham, Writer (1966) |
| Buddy Hackett, Comedian (2003) |
| David Harris, (2004) |


