Posted at 12:01 p.m., Friday, August 31, 2007
Late island journalist remembered in scholarship fund
Advertiser Staff
O'ahu-raised journalist Patricia Bibby, who died from breast cancer in 2004 at the age of 43, was also an emerging poet. The Patricia Bibby Scholarship, an endowed fund, was created to allow a talented beginning poet in need to attend the Summer Poetry Workshops at Idyllwild Arts in Idyllwild, Calif.Former poet laureate Billy Collins will read at the Redcat Theater in Los Angeles to benefit the scholarship fund.
Bibby became friends with Collins while attending Idyllwild. She called him "the poet god."
Bibby, who graduated from the University of Hawai'i, is remembered by former colleagues from her days at Ka Leo, and as a reporter for UPI, for which she covered Ferdinand Marcos during his residency in Hawai'i. She went on to become a reporter for the Associated Press in New York.
Benefit: 8 p.m. Sept. 8; Redcat Theater, 631 West 2nd St., Los Angeles; 951-659-2171, ext. 2331.
Tickets: $75.
