From Pam Spaulding, I learn the news of Del Martin's passing. I have only read about her and seen photos of her, but I celebrate her life and am grateful for her tremendous pioneering activism.
I hope this link works!
http://www.pamshouseblend.com/showDiary.do?diaryId=6698
If there is another "after world" she is joining Grace Paley and Marsha Z. West and Harold Rogovin and Darren Carr and Rhett Jones and Seraphin B. and Eric S. Richardson and Allegra Jones and Mahmoud Darwish and Mollie Ivins and Fred Martin and so many ancestors ...
Showing posts with label Fred Martin. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Fred Martin. Show all posts
Wednesday, August 27, 2008
Thursday, May 1, 2008
Gratitude for Gary Snyder
This is one of the original "Beat" poets, who lives in the northwest , and has lived in Japan and other places. He is very deserving and not a part of the Po-Biz.
His birthday is May 8, 1945 ( I believe).
In 1982, I was blessed in attending a reading of anthropologist/poets [poet/anthropologists?] at The New School for Social Research. Gary Snyder, Jerome Rothenberg and 3 or 4 others read. I sat near the front of the auditorium, next to Fred Martin, then an editor at New Directions. Fred was editor for Gary, and Denise Levertov and many brilliant poets.
He shared that he, himself was a "C- poet," who had "to deal in A+ to survive."
I was barely 18 years old at the time and overjoyed to receive written notes throughout the reading from Fred. He graded all the poets that evening. I wrote about Fred Martin on foetrydotcom, and later heard from his daughter-in-law, Susan.
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His birthday is May 8, 1945 ( I believe).
In 1982, I was blessed in attending a reading of anthropologist/poets [poet/anthropologists?] at The New School for Social Research. Gary Snyder, Jerome Rothenberg and 3 or 4 others read. I sat near the front of the auditorium, next to Fred Martin, then an editor at New Directions. Fred was editor for Gary, and Denise Levertov and many brilliant poets.
He shared that he, himself was a "C- poet," who had "to deal in A+ to survive."
I was barely 18 years old at the time and overjoyed to receive written notes throughout the reading from Fred. He graded all the poets that evening. I wrote about Fred Martin on foetrydotcom, and later heard from his daughter-in-law, Susan.
read more | digg story
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