[New-Poetry] R.I.P. Jim Simmerman

[David Graham]

A forward from another list.


Friends,

It is with the heaviest heart imaginable that I must share the news  
with you that a great friend and brilliant poet, Jim Simmerman, has  
died.

Jim took his own life earlier this week at his home in Flagstaff. He  
was suffering from a lengthy and painful illness.

Jim's good friend James Jay and I are assuming the task of contacting  
as many of Jim's friends and readers as we can, so that the fewest  
possible individuals who knew and loved Jim will find out in ways  
that are not direct.

It is to this end that James and I ask everyone who may know Jim's  
friends, particularly in the Midwestern United States and on the East  
Coast, to share contact information with us so that we may reach them.

Jim had a tremendous effect on his students, lovers of poetry, and  
his friends.

Thank you and please contact either James or myself by telephone or  
email.  . . . . I could, in particular, really use some help in  
locating friends of Jim's from the Iowa workshop, circa mid- 
seventies, if anyone was involved at that time --?

In love and with great sadness,
Becky Byrkit   928-380-8682
James Jay      928-814-9313

Rebecca Byrkit

Director, Northern Arizona Resource Center & Artspace
Home of the Northern Arizona Book Festival


928-226-1633 or 928-380-8682
www.nazbookfestival.org

10th Annual Northern Arizona Book Festival, April 20-22, 2007

Mailing Address:
NABF
P.O. Box 1871
Flagstaff, AZ  86002-1871

Home:
Northern Arizona Resource Center and Artspace
150 W. Dale Suite #6
Flagstaff, AZ


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