TCU finds fitting showcase for poet laureate Dan Jenkins | Fort Worth Star-Telegram

BY GIL LEBRETONglebreton@star-telegram.comLINKEDINGOOGLE+PINTERESTREDDITPRINTORDER REPRINT OF THIS STORYThe field, not the press box, is the constant in the Dan Jenkins-TCU story.The end zone bleachers where he used to sit as a kid and watch the canvas-trousered Horned Frogs play have been leveled and reconstructed. The old Amon G. Carter Stadium press box with its stratospheric vantage point and hand-operated elevator was humanely imploded in 2010.But the stadium’s playing field remains, linking the two glory eras of TCU football and bridging the remarkable writing career of a man who, by any standard, reigns as the poet laureate of Fort Worth.

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