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in Wilmington, Delaware, The United States

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Poetry

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Ted Kooser, George Bilgere, Billy Collins.

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I was raised and educated in the Midwest (high school in Hudson, OH; B.A. and M.A. in English from Michigan State; M.F.A. from the Playwrights' Workshop at University of Iowa), but I have spent the last 46 years in Maryland, 39 of them as an English and drama teacher at the Landon School in Bethesda.

Since retirement, I have continued to direct plays through community theaters (before the pandemic) and have also focused on writing. My flash fiction, creative non-fiction, and poetry have been published in more than a dozen magazines or anthologies, including Still Crazy, NEAT, cahoodadoodaling, Red Wolf Journal, Voices de la Luna, Greek Fire, Objects in the Rear View Mirror, Poeming Pigeons, ....And the Tail Wagged On. My poem "The Cactus on ...more

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	Greek Fire by George Amabile (Contributor), Lucile Barker (Contributor), Lara Biyuts (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) 4.91 avg rating — 11 ratings — published 2015	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Object Lessons 4.70 avg rating — 10 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	And the Tail Wagged On... by Selected International Poets, John Aylesworth, D.M. Babbit 4.50 avg rating — 8 ratings — published 2015	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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If you have an interest in musical theater and Sondheim or if you have an interest in the process behind creating something for the stage, whether or not you like musicals or Sondheim, this book provides terrific insights into how the book and music ...more
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