VQR launches blog tribute to Garrett
George Garrett wasn’t much of an Internet or computer guy…he wrote on many, many yellow legal pads in large, flowing, difficult to read script. But as the Charlottesville literary world mourns the loss last Sunday of the enormously prolific writer, UVA prof, and former Virginia Poet Laureate, the folks at the Virginia Quarterly Review have launched a very web savvy way of paying tribute. (It seems like only yesterday that Garrett was the one evoking remembrances in the VQR, when he penned a 2003 tribute to former VQR editor Staige Blackford.) VQR editor Ted Genoways is asking former students, colleagues, and people who knew him to post comments on the VQR’s blog for possible inclusion in a tribute to Garrett in the Fall addition of the magazine.
“What we want, more than anything else, is to show the incredible impact George had as a writer, a teacher, a colleague, and a friend,” writes Genoways in an email to Richard H. W. Dillard, director of the writing program at Hollins College, and long-time friend of Garrett’s, seeking his support in getting the word out about the blog.
“We’re reaching out to as many people as we can,” writes Genoways, ” but George’s network was enormous, and we can use your help.”
