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.

Monday, May 14, 2007

From Tina Whittle

I, too, am at a loss for words. So I will use David's, from his collection Original Skin:

From "Vanishing Acts"

Everything happens for no reason but
what we reduce it to, depending on
our losses at the deeper end and how
we face the vanishing of all we meant
to keep: from flesh and blood to love and more than love.
My students understand the seeds
of conflict necessary for a tale
that's worth telling,
worthy of their time.
What gets them, though, are tales that end without an end, with only loss, when loss is just the start.



Posted by Tina Whittle to Words for David Starnes at May 14, 2007 10:01 AM
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