Poetry in symphonic motion
Penn Current
October 5th, 2017
“I can’t stop thinking about corn.”
The line had been in his head for years.
Its meaning was a mystery for Herman Beavers, a professor of English and Africana Studies in the School of Arts & Sciences.
“I didn’t know what it was. I didn’t know what it meant,” Beavers says.
Those six words waited more than a decade to come to life. Beavers tends to write, put it away, and then come back again.
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