Jack Webb

The Best of Border Voices: Poet Laureates, Pulitzer Prize Winners & the Wisdom of Kids Jack Webb

Brief Description: San Diego's Border Voices has been one of the nation's largest poetry festivals for fourteen years, featuring nationally renowned poets, prize winning student poets from San Diego county, and a cadre of poetry teachers from throughout the school district. This poetry book collects together the best poems from fourteen years of festivals, featuring poems by students, teachers, and national poets. Includes biographical notes on major poets. Major poets include Francisco X. Alarcn, Billy Collins, Robert Creeley, Dana Gioia, Galway Kinnell, Steve Kowit, Philip Levine, Sharon Olds, Robert Pinsky, Adrienne Rich, Luis Rodrguez, Gary Snyder, Gary Soto, and Mark Strand.

Contributor Bio:  Webb, Jack Jack Webb (1920 1982) first achieved success in the entertainment industry playing the title character in the radio show "Pat Novak, Private Eye". His greatest success, however, came from the beloved show "Dragnet", which ran for many years on both radio and television.