ANOTHER LIST

Too many friends of all kinds have died, but after losing two poet friends in the past week, I found myself making a list in my head last night of some poet friends who’ve died over the years. Some died way before their time, others were older but are still missed, and some were better known for other things, but all wrote poetry I dug. (I used Google when I couldn’t remember what year they died, and I'm sure I'm forgetting some):

Ralph Dickey 1971

Walter Lowenfels 1976

Joel Colton 1980

Ted Berrigan 1983

Edwin Denby 1983

Lee Lally 1986

Darrell Gray 1986
Tim Dlugos 1990

Etheridge Knight 1991

James Schuyler 1991

Ed Cox 1992

Audre Lorde 1992

Jim Brodey 1993

Donald Britton 1994
Joe Brainard 1994

George Starbuck 1996

Allen Ginsberg 1997

Gerald Burns 1997

Lotus Weinstock 1997
Kathy Acker 1997
Dick Higgins 1998

James Haining 2000?

Roland Flint 2001

Kenneth Koch 2002

Hubert Selby Jr. 2004

Ron Schreiber 2004

David Hilton 2005

Lorenzo Thomas 2005

Ahmos Zu-Bolton 2005

Robert Creeley 2005

Ed Smith 2005

Barbara Guest 2006

Robert Trammell 2006

Michael Benedikt 2007

Steve Shrader 2007

Ann Darr 2007

Liam Rector 2007

Merilene E. Murphy 2007
Bob Callahan 2008

Thomas M. Disch 2008

Jonathan Williams 2008

Michael Gizzi 2010

David Franks 2010
Paul Violi 2011

Scott Wannberg 2011

Adrienne Rich 2012

Anselm Hollo 2013

Harvey Shapiro 2013

Wanda Coleman 2013

Bill Knott 2014

Robert Peters 2014

Allan Kornblum 2014
Rene Ricard 2014
James Tate 2015

Lynn Manning 2015

Bill Berkson 2016
Ted Greenwald 2016