Deborah Digges, author of the Kingsley Tufts-award winning collection Rough Music, was found dead last Friday on the University of Massachusetts-Amherst campus. The Tufts professor, poet and memoirist apparently took her own life.
Read the Boston Globe’s obituary.
The news from Tufts Daily.
The New York Times obit.
An appreciation in The New Yorker.
A thoughtful post at Best American Poetry.
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In Chicago, Franklin Rosemont, the legendary surrealist poet and labor historian, died of an apparent stroke or aneurysm. Rosemont–founder of the Chicago Surrealist Group, de-facto editor of Charles H. Kerr publishing house, and author of Lamps Hurled at the Stunning Algebra of Ants, among other collections–was 66.
The Chicago Tribune ran this appreciation Wednesday.
An obit from CounterPunch.
The Socialist Worker weighs in.
An appreciation from Samizdat Blog.
From the Anarchist News.
Correction: Deborah’s book was Rough Music
Posted By: Allan Peterson on April 20, 2009 at 12:30 amReport this comment
Thanks, Allan. It’s fixed.
Posted By: Travis Nichols on April 20, 2009 at 11:28 amReport this comment
Thanks for the links. The thread on The Best American Poetry is interesting. MM
Posted By: Minor Morgan on April 20, 2009 at 7:30 pmReport this comment
Franklin Rosemont’s last public appearance, at Mess Hall in Chicago on April 4, 2009: http://marcmoscato.com/in-memoriam-franklin-rosemont-1943-2009/
Posted By: Fred Sasaki on April 21, 2009 at 1:29 amReport this comment