Popular Culture Review Vol. 26, No. 1, Winter 2015 | Page 118

somewhere should consider him for a directorship! If a prosecuting DA could feel the impact of literature, then who couldn’t. In this very personal case here, there is a sad but hopeful lesson. That’s what we should be teaching in our creative writing programs, that creative writing is not just original, clever, entertaining though somewhat mysterious, but also a powerful means of persuasion. Give a copy of that new poem to the district GF