Wednesday, December 11, 2019

Poet Lyn Lifshin has passed at 77.


  The " Queen" of the small press-- poet Lyn Lifshin has passed at the age of 77.  Lifshin was published in almost every magazine out there including my own.You always knew it was a Lifshin submission because it was an overstuffed envelope with 50 to 100 poems--and many of them were very good. I met Lynn in the North End of Boston at the late Jack Powers' house, and later attended a reading with her and Jon Wieners at the Old West Church in the Beacon Hill area. I interviewed her in a funky little restaurant in the North End in the 90s. She was a very engaging woman, very kind, and wore an in your face red mini-skirt and high heels. She loved talking about her love of dance as well as poetry. Here is the interview I conducted with her--may she rest in peace... https://www.lynlifshin.com/Int-holder.htm The taped interview is held in the Harvard Woodberry Collection...

3 comments:

  1. I am so sorry to hear this, I have known Lyn in poetry and shared many journals with her.

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  2. Rest in peace, Lyn Lifshin. I loved her poetry. Bold. Fearless.

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  3. Rest in peace, Lyn Lifshin. I loved her poetry. Bold. Fearless.

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