Throwback Thursday: “The Life and Poetry of John Beecher,” 2009

It was ten years ago this month that my third book with the very long academic title, The Life and Poetry of John Beecher, 1904 – 1980: Advocate for Poetry as a Spoken Art, was published by Edwin Mellen Press. The book was based on my master’s thesis for the Master of Liberal Arts program at Auburn University at Montgomery. At the time of its publication, it was the only book about Beecher, though Angela Smith’s Here I Stand was since published in 2009. A descendant of the abolitionist Beecher… Read more Throwback Thursday: “The Life and Poetry of John Beecher,” 2009 →