[Duncan Gillies MacLaurin]

Stephen Dunn has died on his 82nd birthday. If you haven't read Walking Light: Memoirs and Essays on Poetry, then I encourage you to do so.

Here's one of his poems.

Duncan

[Woody Long]

Thanks, Duncan.

Here's another of his poems. I admire the craft and the architecture.

— Woody

[John Isbell]

I leafed through Dunn's New and Selected Poems some years ago and promptly purchased the volume. I don't open it often, but he made an impact which these two posted poems confirm. Good craft. Good name for poetry as well. Thanks for posting, Duncan.

Leonard Cohen's "Chelsea Hotel" of course ends, "I don't think of you that often." But he wrote the song.

John

[Allen Tice]

I briefly had him as a one-day teacher at Breadloaf. I was callow, shallow, and an untoasted marshmallow. R. I. P.

[Roger Slater]

My first association with his name is this poem, which I think is one of his better known poems.

[Susan McLean]

I've been reading Dunn's work for years and have really enjoyed it. He taught at the same university I did, though many years before I got there, and he was good friends with my mentor Phil Dacey. Once, when he came to read at a literary festival at that university, I got to introduce him. I did not know him personally, but he was one of the free-verse poets that I consistently read.

Susan