Remembrances

Her poems drew power from contradiction: ferocity held in lyric restraint, grief braided with humor, the sacred brushing against the profane.

For Larry, poetry was the molecular music of life.

She was a winning combination of sassy humor and serious engagement. 

Their love made no mistakes.

She tried to see the universe from an atom's point of view.

She survived in and because of poetry. That, and love. 

Whether reciting poems from a bank lobby or singing along to Justin Bieber in LA traffic, he met the world with intellectual rigor and extraordinary attention.

She sought to elevate unheard voices and expand the reach of art and of poetry.

His cultural activism made him one of the greatest supporters of Filipino poets and a beloved mentor to many.

Anything, in their hands, could be shaped into art.

A poet of risk, for whom writing and activism were one.

He saw poetry as an ongoing shamanic journey, a ritual system unfolding across continents and time. 

A poet who held imagination as his one most crucial tool in the search for a glimpse of glamourie.

A poet whose multifarious fascinations included ornithology, classical piano, jazz, long-distance rail travel, and architecture. 

The songwriter espoused a personal, hedonistic kind of spirituality.

A poet of Cleveland, Ohio, whose poems reveal the city's visual and musical possibilities in ways that are exciting and complex and strange.

A poet of the riverworld, from the St. Johns River to the Nile.