The New York Times - A Memoir of a Lifetime

I i had the idea to write poems, inspired by a prompt somewhere in the obituary pages of the new york times, every day for a year. It turned out to be this cataclysmic year, 20 16, when we lost david bo and prince and merle haggard and leonard cone. There were people who meant things to me, personally, to my parents. So it wound up being something very different from what it began as. And so it's sort of er your first piece of work as a poet.

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