SUZY STUMP: TACOMA'S POET LAUREATE >>>

Last night Mayor Bill Baarsma awarded Bill Kupinse as the 2008 Urban Grace Poet Laureate of Tacoma.  Kupinse, associate professor of English at the University of Puget Sound, received the award just before opening for U.S. Poet Laureate Billy Collins at the Pantages.

As part of the award, Kupinse will promote, perform, and teach poetry on behalf of Urban Grace â€" the Downtown Church.

Writing good poetry isn’t something that comes naturally to everyone. It’s hard to find that “inner voice” without sounding cliché.

Congrats Kupinse!

Here's a video of Kupinse moderating a roundtable on waste at the Philoctetesa Center.