Quote of the day
They may then be willing to cast principled votes based on an educated understanding of the public interest in the face of polls suggesting that the public itself may have quite a different understanding of where its interest lies.
James Tate
Born: December 8, 1943
Died: July 8, 2015 (aged 71)
Bio: James Vincent Tate was an American poet whose work earned him the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award. He was a professor of English at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters.
Known for:
- Dreams of a robot dancing bee (2002)
- A Worshipful Company of Fletchers (1994)
- Return to the city of white donkeys (2004)
- Shroud of the gnome (1997)
- Distance from loved ones (1990)








