Dispatches | March 26, 2007
Politician shows promise as aspiring poet
In his undergrad days at Occidental College in L.A., Barack Obama penned some poems that found their way into the school’s literary magazine. While the work yields no clues to his future political ambitions, it does indicate he had an ear for language and, as blogger Steven Barrie-Anthony writes, shows a “modicum of humanness from a less circumspect past.”
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