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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Robert Lee Brewer is Senior Editor of Writer's Digest, which includes managing the content on WritersDigest.com and programming virtual conferences. He's the author of Solving the World's Problems, The Complete Guide of Poetic Forms: 100+ Poetic Form Definitions and Examples for Poets, Poem-a-Day: 365 Poetry Writing Prompts for a Year of Poeming, and more. Also, he's the editor of Writer's Market, Poet's Market, and Guide to Literary Agents. Follow him on Twitter @robertleebrewer.