Bennie Lee Sinclair, 61, poet laureate

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Bennie Lee Sinclair, South Carolina Poet Laureate, Dead at 61

GREENVILLE, S.C. (AP) -- Bennie Lee Sinclair, South Carolina's poet
laureate who wrote a poem for Gov. Jim Hodges' inauguration in 1999,
died Monday of a heart attack. She was 61.

Her work included the novel, ''The Lynching''; a collection of short
fiction, ''Appalachian Trilogy''; and four collections of verse, ''Little
Chicago Suite,'' ''The Arrowhead Scholar,'' ''The Endangered: New and
Selected Poems'' and ''Lord of Springs,'' which was nominated for
the 1991 Pulitzer Prize for verse.

Sinclair was named poet laureate in 1976 by then-Gov. Richard Riley, now
U.S. secretary of education, and wrote poems for formal state functions.
Last year when a gust of wind scattered the pages of her poem for
Hodges' inauguration, she recited the poem from memory.

''The Arrowhead Scholar,'' written as an elegy in memory of her brother,
earned her the Stephen Vincent Benet Award in 1970.

AP-NY / 05-23-00 06:13 EDT

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I only wish our worthless scalawag "governor" would follow her footsetps
and face his well due reward. This literary prostitute wrote a book "The
Lynching" which falsely claimed that an "innocent" black man was lynched
by the Klan.

Instead, what really happened is that a murder and a robber met his just
reward and those men who were arrested for the "crime" were found NOT
GUILTY.

Bonnie Lee Sinclair dropped into hell on May 22, 2000, where she can on
longer slander the citizens of Greenville County, South Carolina

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All the agony you will have to endure during the rest
of your entire life has not even started yet.

Flatus M.