Tod Howard Hawks

Educated at Andover and Columbia. Poet and human-rights advocate.

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Why is Columbia College a better educational experience than Harvard College? by Tod Hawks https://t.co/DGKpjstYSS

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Dear Desu, I just watched your Columbia video on Youtube (I think I've seen ALL Columbia videos) and I just wanted to tell that yours is the BEST PRODUCED of all I've seen. I think you graduated in 2020. Hope you're healthy and happy. TOD HOWARD HAWKS, CC, 1966 [email protected]

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Eliot, I'm Tod Hawks, one of the poets whose poems appear in Hello Poetry. I've been trying to reach you to fix a problem on your site that is of your making, but have heard only silence. My bank says my credit card is good, but HP won't let me use it to buy "suns." Help!

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Dear Ms.Singh: I am Tod Howard Hawks. I would like you to read my PEACE ON EARTH THROUGH LOVE (it's in Hindi), which you can google. I am a poet and human-rights advocate. My blessings to you. 19 April 2021

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Power is not to oppress. It is to empower.

TOD HOWARD HAWKS--A Citizen of Earth, as we all are.

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(continued IV) where coats and ties. Well, I gots to git back to work or theyll kick me out. You have a good night, ya hear. Thanks for bein so nice to me.

TOD HOWARD HAWKS

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19 April 2021

Drop me a line. Best, Tod. (@todhawks)

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(continued III)A CITIZEN OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
ladies go bye. To be honest, things haven't changed much in Mississippi. Don't go out in the night--you might get shot for no good reason. I's still remember the KKK in them white robes. All them burning crosses. Now them

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(continued II) Fry 'em up real good. When I was a kid, had to get off the sidewalk to let them white ladies go bye. To be honest, things haven't changed much in Mississippi. Don't go out in the night--you might get shot for no good reason. I's still remember the KKK in them white

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but I served my country in Vietnam to kill our enemies. Lost most of my left arm. Makes it harder to push a broom. I takes the bus to home and work. Thanks to Mrs. Parks I don't have to sit in the back no more. I go fishin to get away from it all. Catfish--that's what I like to

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Kevin, here's my poem. If I have to use another tweet, I will:

A CITIZEN OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
I makes $7.50 an hour. I sweep up behind others. I'm gettin to be an ol man. My two uncles got lynched outside of Greenville. I quit school when I were 13,

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Kevin,

You and I both grew up in Topeka. I went to Andover and you to Topeka High. I chose Columbia over Yale. You went to Harvard. I want to submit a poem to your magazine, but you make it most difficult to do, so I'm sending it to you. You'll find it in the following tweet.

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Columbia acceptance rate drops to record low 3.7 percent after 51 percent spike in applications https://t.co/U4aMrBzFtM

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@elleteedee Hi, I'm Tod Howard Hawks. I do not know for sure the name of the young woman in the sexplanation video on Youtube I saw for the first time a few minutes ago, but whoever you are, I congratulate and thank you for your genius! [email protected] 19 March 2021

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@pat_wade2 Congratulations on your admission to Columbia, the best university in the world! Tod Howard Hawks, Columbia College, Columbia University, Class of 1966.

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@cherrymidnight Hi, I'm Tod Howard Hawks ([email protected]) and received from you the message that you are now following me on Commaful. Thank you for that, but the bulk of my poems are on Hello Poetry. Also, feel free to email as well. Best, Tod 3/14/21

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Dear Michael, you and I are fellow alumni of Andover. I majored in American history at Columbia College, Columbia University. Eric Foner, who did the same, was two years ahead of me at the College. We both studied under Prof. James Shenton. Tod Hawks @todhawks

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@BetoORourke Beto, politics is a brutal and ugly profession. But thank God, you're a leader, not a politician.
Tod Hawks. [email protected]

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@MJFargo Michael, this Tod Hawks tweeting you. I hope you're my old friend. I thought of you and decided to say hello. A retired graphic designer? If you're the right person, I'd like to hear from you. My phone #: [phone]

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@BBJ8K Brendan, first, congratulations on becoming a LION! And thank you for having a photograph of Martin and Coretta King on your site. Dr. King is one the few truly great human beings ever to set foot on Earth. Tod Howard Hawks [email protected]

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@CoachJonMc Coach Jon Mc: Could you please tell us who is the Columbia commit you referred to on a tweet 1/16/21 as "the monster from the Northwest Pacific." We all all waiting with baited breath to find out who it is. Thank you so much. Tod Hawks, [email protected]

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@CoachJonMc Coach McLaughlin: Who is the "monster" you referenced on 1/16/21? Thanks.

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