Quote of the day
The Constitution was the expression not only of a political faith, but also of political fears. It was wrought both as the organ of the national interest and as the bulwark of certain individual and local rights.
Albert Goldbarth

Born: January 31, 1948 (age 77)
Bio: Albert Goldbarth is an American poet. He has won the National Book Critics Circle award for "Saving Lives" and "Heaven and Earth: A Cosmology", the only poet to receive the honor two times.
Known for:
- The Kitchen Sink: New and Selected Poems (2007)
- Heaven and earth (1991)
- Budget travel through space and time (2005)
- To Be Read in 500 Years: Poems (2009)
- Pieces of Payne (2003)