Noah talks to Neal Bowers, author of the book Words for the Taking. Bowers is a poet and professor of English at Iowa State University who discovered that his poems were being plagiarized. Someone would make minor changes in his work and then submit them to literary journals which Bowers would read. He felt violated; some of the poetry was about personal subjects and to have them stolen was disconcerting to him. Eventually he did discover the identity of the plagiarist. (8:00) (STATIONS: Words for the Taking is published by W.W. No
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