Heartland Poetry Tour
Aubrey Herbst
Issue date: 10/5/06 Section: Lifestyles
A tall, clean cut young man in jeans and a suit coat stood grinning in front of the small crowd of English majors.
Accompanied by a man several inches shorter, who appeared to have stepped right out of the American Civil War era, Wittenberg alumnus Tom Haushalter and his friend, Emmett Tracy, came to Wittenberg to give a sampling of their poetry.
Haushalter and his graduate school friend, Tracy, brought their poetry to Wittenberg this past Friday. While reading several of their own poems they also played voices in each other's poems as well.
Each man's poetry was starkly different in intent and style.
Thin, lanky, and styling a vest, jacket, bowtie, and beard, Emmett Tracy looked and sounded the way his poems were written. He opened by telling a brief story of his arrival to Wittenberg.
"He ain't Wittenberg," said a student when he saw Tracy on campus.
The crowd laughed. Everyone in the room seemed to understand the comment, just by Tracy's appearance. With his deep and obvious Southern drawl, Tracy's poetry offered a very Southern sentiment.
As he read, one could tell that his poems reflected stories that had been passed down from generation to generation. They were stories of the South's industries, the effects of the Civil War, fishing, logging, old men, John Deere, and camping trips.
They were full of southern politics, traditions, and usually ended in a dramatic and loud humorous remark. Opening with a brief Jimmy Stewart impression, the clean cut Haushalter had a very different style than that of Tracy.
His poems reflected and told stories of his personal experiences. They were remnants of his childhood and his family. Haushalter chuckled as he introduced his poem "The Garden Shovel Incident." He explained that he had a twin brother, and the poem was about a scuffle that the two had. Each poem seemed to be about a memory or a past incident. Other poems were about his boyhood romps, his sister, learning how to ride a two wheeler and his childhood home.
Wittenberg being only one stop on their Poetry reading tour, the duo plans to continue around the Midwest reading their poetry.
Although one can probably tell merely by their appearances, the two Columbia Graduate School alumnae have very different writing styles and entertain their audiences very well.
Accompanied by a man several inches shorter, who appeared to have stepped right out of the American Civil War era, Wittenberg alumnus Tom Haushalter and his friend, Emmett Tracy, came to Wittenberg to give a sampling of their poetry.
Haushalter and his graduate school friend, Tracy, brought their poetry to Wittenberg this past Friday. While reading several of their own poems they also played voices in each other's poems as well.
Each man's poetry was starkly different in intent and style.
Thin, lanky, and styling a vest, jacket, bowtie, and beard, Emmett Tracy looked and sounded the way his poems were written. He opened by telling a brief story of his arrival to Wittenberg.
"He ain't Wittenberg," said a student when he saw Tracy on campus.
The crowd laughed. Everyone in the room seemed to understand the comment, just by Tracy's appearance. With his deep and obvious Southern drawl, Tracy's poetry offered a very Southern sentiment.
As he read, one could tell that his poems reflected stories that had been passed down from generation to generation. They were stories of the South's industries, the effects of the Civil War, fishing, logging, old men, John Deere, and camping trips.
They were full of southern politics, traditions, and usually ended in a dramatic and loud humorous remark. Opening with a brief Jimmy Stewart impression, the clean cut Haushalter had a very different style than that of Tracy.
His poems reflected and told stories of his personal experiences. They were remnants of his childhood and his family. Haushalter chuckled as he introduced his poem "The Garden Shovel Incident." He explained that he had a twin brother, and the poem was about a scuffle that the two had. Each poem seemed to be about a memory or a past incident. Other poems were about his boyhood romps, his sister, learning how to ride a two wheeler and his childhood home.
Wittenberg being only one stop on their Poetry reading tour, the duo plans to continue around the Midwest reading their poetry.
Although one can probably tell merely by their appearances, the two Columbia Graduate School alumnae have very different writing styles and entertain their audiences very well.
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