Frost Coverage on Weekend Edition
By Waldo Jaquith
September 28th, 2006
Things have been abuzz here at VQR for the past couple of days since word got out that we’re publishing “War Thoughts at Home,” a previously unknown Robert Frost poem. We’ve published a dozen previously unknown Frost poems over the years, but that was while he was still alive, shortly after he wrote them, which made them admittedly somewhat less exciting than this latest find. Hillel Italie’s AP story is the source of the buzz, since major papers across the nation picked up the story.
The coverage will culminate on NPR’s Weekend Edition Sunday, when not one but two stories are slated to run. The first is an interview with the finder of the poem, Robert Stilling, and VQR Editor Ted Genoways. The second is a broader piece about VQR, which will attempt to explain how a staff of four produces a well-respected magazine. We particularly look forward to hearing the latter so we can figure out how to do it. We’re all fairly sure we didn’t say anything particularly foolish during our interviews, but that won’t keep us from feeling nervous between now and then.
The Virginia Quarterly Review
September 28th, 2006 at 5:39 pm
[...] NPR’s Weekend Edition will have two pieces about Virginia Quarterly Review on Sunday. If I don’t get left on the cutting room floor then I may be included in one piece. [...]
September 29th, 2006 at 2:54 pm
[...] In addition to appearing on this Sunday’s Weekend Edition, Virginia Quarterly Review will also be included at the tail end of CBS’ Evening News tonight, when Katie Couric reads from our newly-discovered Robert Frost poem. We’re slated to be the subject of a lengthier feature on the show’s Sunday edition. Be sure to tune in. It’s a hell of a time for me to leave for a week’s vacation at the beach. [...]
September 30th, 2006 at 7:52 pm
Friday’s CBS Evening News didn’t run a piece on the frost poem, contrary to what they told us. Assuming we got bumped by other news.
October 4th, 2006 at 2:18 pm
It was a good story. Ted, you were gracious and humble. Congratulations on (all of) the coverage.