A little bit about a few poets…
“Vendor of verse: It’s personal at NYC street ‘poem shop,’” by Jennifer Peltz on Newsday.com, profiles Manhattan poet William Chrome, who writes poems on his typewriter on the spot on…
"Vendor of verse: It's personal at NYC street 'poem shop,'" by Jennifer Peltz on Newsday.com, profiles Manhattan poet William Chrome, who writes poems on his typewriter on the spot on the street for cash.
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"An engineer whose life was poetry in free verse," by Gayle Ronan Sims for The Philadelphia Inquirer, is a nice obituary for Philadelphia poet Herschel Baron.
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