blueprints

the poem is a Bridge
Poetry@Tech
thomas lux
I don’t know who put the @ symbol instead of the word at between Poetry
and Tech, but I guess it’s appropriate, given the age we live in and
given that Tech is the Georgia Institute of Technology, a very well-known
university not well known for poetry.
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It began like this. In the late 1990s, Henry and Margaret Bourne decided to
endow a chair in poetry at Georgia Tech “to ensure,” as Dr. Brown said,
“that Georgia Tech students will always have an opportunity for first-rate
instruction in the great poetry of the world.” He considers it “especially
important that, in the highly specialized and technical areas of engineering,
science, and management, students’ aptitudes are nurtured and supported as
a foundation for lifelong learning.” Dr. Bourne was an electrical engineering
professor at Georgia Tech for many years, was the provost for a while,
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