Tuesday, June 21, 2016

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

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