Will Dockery wrote:

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>> INTRODUCTION
>> I don't want to mount Pegasus,
>> I want to mount the air
>> which he flies thru."
>> Black Jack Moses
>> I
>> Southern folklore tells it, that Pegasus came back to earth
>> from a constellation of trickling blood. It is said that he
>> circled the planet 13 times before breaking orbit toward the
>> Americas. Greek poets were watching him on TV--they were
>> shocked--"Don't Pegasus remember the way home?", they asked
>> each other.
>> Pegasus wasn't wasting any time though. He knew where he
>> was going.
>> He hit the skies over the state of Georgia and
>> landed in a city called Columbus. Columbus was also known as
>> the fountain city. And any body who knows how to read knows
>> that Pegasus loved fountains. Fountain inspire poetry, the
>> legend goes.
>> Pegasus walked around Columbus and talked with the children.
>> He listened to the poems in them. Some of his favorite are
>> published in this book.
>> II
>> The post-Sputnik age has produced the most literate generation of all time. And their first musings are usually published
>> in high school journals across the land. Yet these journals are
>> largely overlooked--they are not even listed in the widely ac
>> claimed Directory of Little Magazines.
>> The thing I love about these high school poets, is that they
>> break all the rules. Their song is often birthed out of impulse
>> and this is where the seed of literature is watered. Impulse
>> writing in an atmosphere where anything goes--as long as you
>> communicate. Even laws of traditional rhymes have a home here.
>> III
>> This magazine is completely student edited. Since caning
>> Carver I have kept my distance. Being an editor-of-sorts my
>> self, I tend to throw out opinions the way fountains throw ou
>> water--but this time I managed to keep my mouth shut.
>> These young editors and poets are making the poems of our
>> future. They deserve our consideration. It is said that Ze
>> made Pegasus into a constellation--high schoolers seem to be
>> reaching for those stars.
>> Ahmos Zu-Bolton II
>> Poet-in-Residence
>> May, 1976

Again..... of interest....!