Jack Collom

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Jack Collom


Born
in Chicago, Illinois
November 08, 1931

Died
July 02, 2017

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Orpingalik, Shakespeare, Blind Willie Johnson, Dada, Chaucer, Gertrude ...more


Jack Collom was born in Chicago in 1931 and grew up in nearby Western Springs, where he spent much of his boyhood walking in the woods and bird watching. After graduating from the Forestry School at Colorado A&M College, Collom joined the US Air Force and wrote his first poems in Tripoli, Libya. He lived in Germany a Zeitlang, then returned stateside and worked in factories for twenty years. He was an adjunct professor at Naropa University in Boulder, Colorado and worked extensively with schoolchildren for thirty-five years. Collom was the author of twenty-four books and chapbooks as well as editor (with commentaries) of three books of writings by children. Collom was twice been awarded the National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, in par ...more

Average rating: 4.47 · 264 ratings · 31 reviews · 53 distinct works
Poetry Everywhere: Teaching...

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4.19 avg rating — 75 ratings — published 1994 — 4 editions
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Red Car Goes By: Selected P...

4.83 avg rating — 29 ratings — published 2001 — 2 editions
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Exchanges of Earth & Sky

4.33 avg rating — 18 ratings — published 2005
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Situations, Sings

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4.41 avg rating — 17 ratings — published 2007 — 2 editions
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Sunflower

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4.50 avg rating — 12 ratings — published 2000
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Second Nature

4.80 avg rating — 10 ratings — published 2012
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Arguing with Something Plat...

4.25 avg rating — 8 ratings — published 1990
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Moving Windows: Evaluating ...

4.57 avg rating — 7 ratings — published 1985 — 2 editions
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Cold Instant

4.83 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 2010
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The Fox

4.80 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 1981 — 2 editions
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