Summary:
Tuesday's Poem: "Old Timers' Day" by Donald Hall from White Apples and the Taste of Stone. Tuesday's Literary Notes: It's the birthday of the novelist and short-story writer J.F. (James Farl) Powers, born in Jacksonville, Illinois (1917). He was a writer who didn't have too many readers in his lifetime. He wrote primarily about the lives of Catholic priests. But after his death in 1999, many critics ranked him among the greatest -- and funniest -- fiction writers of the late 20th century...