In Memory

David Starnes, our beloved poet, colleague, teacher and friend at Georgia Southern University, passed away at 11:30 a.m. on Sunday, May 13, 2007. The Department of Writing & Linguistics invites you to contribute any memories, thoughts, joys, sadnesses, poems to this site. Just click "add comment" to any of the published entries. They will appear as a comment, and I also will add them to the main page. We will post here news about other memorials as they are planned. We have set up a small memorial outside his office on the second floor of Newton Building where you may visit his poetry collage and leave a comment in person.

Tuesday, May 15, 2007

From Connie...

I would like to share a 'David moment' that exemplifies his great sensitivity and heart. I picked him up by the bookstore one day to give him a lift to the Newton building. He had three magnolia blossoms in his hands and gave me one. He said he picked them every year and passed them out to people because they were so perfect and fragile and short-lived. How like him to be observant and to also share with others.

I feel as stunned as all of us who knew him and the Twain aphorism that keeps running through my mind is "Let me so live my life, that when I die, even the undertaker shall mourn."What a great loss this is.



Posted by connie to Words for David Starnes at May 15, 2007 1:35 PM
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Anonymous said...

How do you express your grief for a man you knew so little about? even though i only knew little about dr. starnes i still love him. Kayvon and I would meet him before one his classes and drink coffee and kayvon would share his writings with him. Starnes would always make time to ask me about my life and my day which let me know how genuine of a person he was. I would always hear wonderful stories about him from kayvon and i always enjoyed hearing those stories.
I wanted to write on this thing since i heard of his tragic death on monday but i couldnt bring myself to. My thought are jumbled, im not exactly sure how i feel. All i know is i miss him, a lot. I havent stopped thinking about this man for days, as im sure a lot of people are in the same boat as i.

how do you deal with a death like this? its not fair and it makes me angry.
David Starnes was a sweet, thoughtful, and very handsome man. there arent enough adjectives in the world to describe him.

It goes without saying....
We will be missing you.

May 16, 2007 at 6:15 AM

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