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Poem of the Day: “Elegy” by Jon Sands

April 15, 2014 by Anna Daniels

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jon sands elegyPoet as memorist

By Anna Daniels

It’s National Poetry Month and readers have been sending in their requests for poems and poets.  Securing publication rights for the poem of the day has been challenging, which is one of the reasons why I am using videos.  Many of you have been sending videos links which means I have enjoyed hours and hours of total immersion in all kinds of poems by all kinds of poets.  You have introduced me to poets I never knew about or poems by familiar poets that I had never read before.  Don’t stop!  Thanks to Anna Prouty for suggesting Elegy by Jon Sands.

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I left a moribund Western Pennsylvania mill town the year that Richard M. Nixon was not impeached for crimes against the American people, and set off in search of truth, beauty, justice and a beat I could dance to. Here I am.
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