Jack
Shuler was
born and raised in Orangeburg, South
Carolina where he ate his share of Earl Duke's barbecue. He's in the MFA
poetry program at Brooklyn College and has had his poems published in
various
locales including Brooklyn Review, S.P.A.W.N., and BigCityLit.com.
He has
also had several essays concerning contemporary poetics published in The
South Carolina Review.
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Mr.
Poet
Jack
Shuler
Making paper is necessary. The
garbageman,
he too, is necessary. The mail carrier, braving
the brutal storm, she is necessary. The truckdriver,
teacher, mother, father, donut maker, ticket taker,
frosted flaker, red leaf raker, sin forsaker,
all necessary.
© 2001 by Jack Shuler
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