"A NARROW FELLOW IN THE WHITE HOUSE..."

NEW YORK (AP) - The White House said Wednesday it postponed a poetry symposium because of concerns that the event would be politicized. Some poets had said they wanted to protest military action against Iraq.

The symposium on the poetry of Emily Dickinson, Langston Hughes and Walt Whitman was scheduled for Feb. 12. No future date has been announced. (full story)

I've seen the greatest symposiums of my generation lost to narrow warmongering...