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POETRY MONDAY: March 2, 2020
Howard F. Stein
Well, everyone, it seems we’re moving toward spring at last, because the days are getting longer here in the eastern U.S. I’m glad to be back with you after my prolonged book leave to work on a new anthology, What They Bring: The Poetry of Migration and Immigration (IPBooks, 2020), especially relevant in this case because it includes poems by the person whose photo you see above.
This is the first time I’ve ever featured a poet whose work I first encountered as non-fiction prose. The book was Developmental Time, Cultural Space (University of Oklahoma Press, 1987), and it impressed me because it reinforced and helped to develop some of the thoughts I was having as I approached the difficult task of gathering poems for the new anthology I was planning with my co-editor, Jim Haba.
Howard F. Stein is professor emeritus in the Department of Family and Preventive Medicine, University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center, Oklahoma City, where he taught for nearly 35 years. I learned that Continue reading POETRY MONDAY: March 2, 2020