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| Walter Howard reading at Stone Soup, May 2, 2011. |
This email came to me via Joan Kimball of the Wayland Poetry Workshop. It came to me in February, but I missed it amidst the chaos in my life. I'm posting it now, as Walter was a fixture at Stone Soup and elsewhere for years.
Personal information omitted.
Dear Friends,
Perhaps you already know this, but if not, I thought I should alert you to the fact that Walter Howard is in a rehab-nursing home... He’s been there since the fall, I believe, when he fell outside his apartment...There does not seem to be any movement to find other housing for him, and none of his family is disposed to take him in. If he had some minor memory problems, where he is doesn’t make it better.
We in the Wayland Poetry Workshop are collecting as many of his poems as we can get our hands on, and planning to publish them in a book. If you have any poems other than those on the attached list, we would love to have a copy.
