Daniel Thompson Tribute
Event posted by Larry R. Smith
30 Apr 2011 7:01 pm
30 Apr 2011 9:01 pm
Tribute Reading to the late Daniel Thompson and Launch of his new book of poems: THE BIG BOOK OF DANIEL. Lakewood Public Library 7 pm. Poets gather to remember and share. Free and open to the public...Join us. Books will be available.
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Lakewood Public Library
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Lakewood
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Ohio
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USA
On The Free Farm: A Novel...Smith provides a unique window into Lee’s young life that is driven by idealism, love of Emerson and Thoreau, and devotion to his beautiful partner, who practices Zen, meditates, and can fix cars….In this realistic yet often surprising and tender novel, a quoted line from 'The Waking' by Theodore Roethke serves as a guidepost: 'I wake to sleep, and take my waking slow/ I feel my fate in what I cannot fear/ I learn by going where I have to go.' ”
—Laura Treacy Bentley
About Larry
I grew up in the industrial Ohio River Valley along the green Appalachian hills. I taught 3 years on high school English before returning to grad school at Kent State University and was there with my wife and daughter during the Kent State shootings. I then...
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Causes Larry Smith Supports
peace and justice, meditation
Larry’s Favorite Books
Walden, Kenneth Patchen Collected Poems






