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.

Saturday, May 26, 2007

From Liz Starnes...

Liz Starnes has left a new comment on your post "From Matt...":

I’ve always felt that Davey got the very best of our family’s traits. Like our father, he could make or do anything and do it well – from practical tasks like painting houses and growing gardens to artistic pursuits such as writing poetry and drawing portraits. I don't have Davey's way with people or the written word but I am lucky enough to share a few things in common with him like a love of nature, reading, movies and particularly, animals. The last correspondence I received from Davey was a card and handwritten letter of condolence about the loss of my beloved dog Maggie on May 3.
While I was helping last week with the sad task of sorting through and packing Davey’s things, I found an envelope of photographs in the desk drawer at his house. The first photo in the stack was one of his famous “one-armed” shots where he would hold the camera at arm’s length and capture himself and as many other subjects as possible in the frame. Davey and Maggie are together and he is wearing a huge grin as she is leaning in to lick his face. I will treasure this picture of two gentle, loving souls who were taken from me much too soon.

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