Ruth Stone died (19/11/2011)

AMerican poet. Born 1915.
Taught creative writing in several universities.
Did not get a tenured position until age 77.
National Book Critics Circle Award for _Ordinary Words_ (1999).
Poet Laureate of Vermont, 2007.
"Even as a child, I would hear a poem coming toward me from way off in the universe. I wouldn't hear it. I would feel it, and it would come right toward me. If I didn't catch it, if I didn't run in the house and write it down, it would go right through me and back into the universe. So I'd never see it again. I'd never hear it again. I've lost about ninety-nine percent of my poems this way.
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