Plourde

"Still," Plourde says as he tries to wipe the cheap cabernet off his favorite shirt, "Orr's right about one thing."

A Night Ride With the Conservative Poetry Enforcers Con Chapman 2011

Plourde asks, snorting with contempt to think that the former printer's devil who took him down so many years ago in Worcester, Mass. would ever rise so high.

A Night Ride With the Conservative Poetry Enforcers Con Chapman 2011

He gives Plourde a Cheshire-cat smile, and at this point everybody chucks their drinks at the guy.

A Night Ride With the Conservative Poetry Enforcers Con Chapman 2011

We drive for awhile and once we're out in the country again Eliot removes the napkins from Plourde's mouth and, without missing a beat, throws a martini in his face.

A Night Ride With the Conservative Poetry Enforcers Con Chapman 2011

It is Bendall Plourde, a refugee from a Master of Fine Arts program who claimed "printer's error" when his amateurish attempt at a sonnet in a student newspaper drew derisive letters to the editor.

A Night Ride With the Conservative Poetry Enforcers Con Chapman 2011

"So—that just supports what I said," Plourde says.

A Night Ride With the Conservative Poetry Enforcers Con Chapman 2011

In 1968, then-Archbishop Joseph-Aurèle Plourde authorized a small group of Catholics who remained attached to the Church's traditional liturgical heritage to continue to use the Latin Tridentine Mass.

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Plourde says with a note of betrayal in his voice—you can tell that one stung.

A Night Ride With the Conservative Poetry Enforcers Con Chapman 2011

"No," Plourde replies, making a great show of his umbrage.

A Night Ride With the Conservative Poetry Enforcers Con Chapman 2011

SECOND PERIOD -- Scoring: 2, Greenville-Plourde 3 (short handed) (Metcalfe) 13: 58. 3,

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