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   Will Dockery to All   
   Re: The Ahmos Zu-Bolton proof, again   
   10 Feb 26 02:44:05   
   
   From: user3274@newsgrouper.org.invalid   
      
   nancygene.andjayme@gmail-dot-com.no-spam.invalid (NancyGene) posted:   
   > Will Dockery wrote:   
   >> mpsilvertone@yahoo-dot-com.no-spam.invalid (HarryLime) posted:   
   > >> Will Dockery wrote:   
   >   
   > >> Kevin Fries, here's the authentic screenshot of the introduction   
   > >> to Pegasus 1976 by Ahmos Zu-Bolton.   
   > >>   
   > >> Dockery: It is real, send it to Miller and Zu-Bolton"s and find   
   > >> out for yourself.   
   > >>   
   > >> Here's the proof.   
   > >>   
   > >> (See attachment at JLA Forums.)   
   > >>   
   > >> Dockery: The Ahmos Zu-Bolton proof, again.   
   > >>   
   > >> 1976 Poet-In-Residence at Carver High School, Columbus Georgia.   
   > >>   
   > >> (See JLA Forums attachment)   
   > >>   
   > >> Dockery: The introduction is from the Carver High School literary   
   > >> journal Pegasus, 1976 edition.   
   > >>   
   > >> You might as well give up, Pendragon, my evidence is solid.   
   > >>   
   > >> The introduction is *not* evidence.  It is not signed.  You have   
   > >> failed to show that it is actually in the school magazine.   
   > >>   
   > >> As per George Dunce's research, he was employed as a   
   > >> "Poet-In-Residence" at Howard University at the time.   
   > >>   
   > >> Dance has proposed that he dropped in on some classes in Carver High   
   > >> as part of the "Visiting Poet" program he was affiliated with.   
   > >>   
   > >> Zu-Bolton was employed as "Poet-In-Residence" at Howard University   
   > >> in the spring of 1976.   
   > >>   
   > >> Zu-Bolton was part of a "Visiting Poet" program in the spring of   
   > >> 1976, and as such, he visited schools with a large African-American   
   > >> student body, sat in on their classes, encouraged them to write,   
   > >> etc.   
   > >   
   > > Have you found details on this?   
   > >   
   > >> Conclusion: Zu-Bolton probably visited Carver High in the spring of   
   > >> 1976   
      
   Correct.   
      
   > as part of the Visiting Poet program.  He was not the   
   > >> "Poet-In-Residence" at Carver High   
   >   
   > > The introduction states that he was, though.   
   > >   
   > > He was "In-Residence"   
   > >   
   > > Dan Barfield stated that Ahmos Zu-Bolton was paid, though.   
   > >   
   > >> With the wider view of the Pegasus thing, we see that it is NOT   
   > >> stapled but seems to be a loose-leaf style pamphlet   
   > >   
   > > No, Pegasus was digest size, stapled in the middle.   
   > >   
   > >> If the pages were stapled together, why are they separate in the   
   > >> photo?   
   > >>   
   > > The pages aren't separate.   
   > >   
   > > Pegasus was a digest size publication, stapled in the middle.   
   >   
   > So this thing was about 5x8 (8-1/2 x 11 folded paper) with one staple.  Very   
   easy to insert a random page   
      
   To insert, four pages would have had to been added.   
      
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