"Cancer" by LUCCI

From my personal archives to mark the one year anniversary of our friend's passing. From the open mic at the Stone Soup Poetry sponsored 100 Thousand Poets for Change open mic on September 28, 2013. LUCCI will always be missed.

 

Sad Day

Today marks the birthday of LUCCI aka Glenn Lucci Furman, who we lost this past summer. 

 

A Response Poem from Glenn LUCCI Furman

From the open mic at the Stone Soup Poetry sponsored 100 Thousand Poets for Change open mic on September 28, 2013. LUCCI was ahead of these awful times.

 

 

Today: Holding a Healing in Memory of Glenn Lucci Furman

This is happening today at 3:00. Join Toni Bee, me, and others. You too?

In Two Days: Holding a Healing in Memory of Glenn Lucci Furman

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This Sunday: Holding a Healing in Memory of Glenn Lucci Furman

From Toni Bee: 

"Please join me this Sunday October 6, 2024 / From 3 - 5PM. We will remember those we lost by suicide.

In August of this year the poetry community lost Glen LUCCI Furman ... to suicide... and many of us are affected!

The loss brings up deep feelings around others we have lost others too Let's gather on line so many can come.

We offer kindness, comfort and we deserve to share good memories of those we loved who we've lost."

Click here for the Zoom link. We hope you can join us. 

Rest Easy

Jason Wright's tribute to LUCCI is up now. Read his latest Jagged Thought up at Oddball Magazine. 

LUCCI

LUCCI, aka Glenn Lucci Furman, had given us poem for a future project. We are presenting it today with thanks to Jason Wright. Read the poem today at Oddball Magazine. RIP LUCCI.

Your Wednesday Morning Poetry

Lucci didn't have many print publication credits to his name outside of Oddball Magazine. Hopefully, his work can be collected and shared. For now, we have what he shared on Facebook. Read "My Name is L.U.C.C.I.: Part Two."

Glenn "Lucci" Furman, 1985-2024

 

 

The above picture above from one of Lucci's earliest interactions with me on September 28, 2013. It was my second time hosting a 100 Thouusand Poets for Change tie-in since Michael Rothenberg and Terri Carrion founded the event in 2011. The first time wasn't as well attended as I hoped, but Lucci and other friends helped me host a successful and fun event two years later. 

Lucci

The news was made official some time ago. LUCCI, aka Loo Chee aka Glenn Lucci Furman, is no longer with us. I was away the last forty eight hours feeling helpless. I don't know how else to feel other than how unacceptable it is this friend of poetry, music, the arts, and those that created it all is never going to speak with us again, never going to feature again, never going to ask anyone another question again. 

I will write more. I will do more and plan more. But for now, I can only encourage you to donate to the GoFundMe for the memorial Lucci deserves so much.