Category: Author Biography
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Of Sometime True Lovers by Doug Smith
In the yellow and blue dawn of winter I will come for her My misty apparition who fogs my eyes and senses and comforts me with her chilled wet kiss She knows my secret sins She’s lived my life “Come in,” says Niagara “The water’s fine” I know it’s not true, it’s freezing in December…
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The Development of the Poetry Walking Tour of Niagara Falls Using Mobile App Technology by Andrew Porteus
Brock University conferred on me the degree of Master of Arts in Popular Culture at the virtual convocation ceremony held in mid-October, 2020. Part of the requirements was to complete a major research project (MRP). My MRP was the development of a poetry walking tour of Niagara Falls using mobile app technology. The tour is…
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Niagara, My Home Town by Stephanie Vigh Nielsen
In the town where I was born, we’d walk up Lundy’s LaneAnd talk about the dreams we had.Life was a glass of ginger ale and a juke box serenade,And we never thought of growing old.Yes, I know those days have come and goneStill I think about my old home town. At a place called the…
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Apple: Skin to the Core: A Memoir in Words and Pictures by Eric Gansworth
Apple, a memoir in verse and pictures by Eric Gansworth is an important addition to the literature of Niagara. Gansworth, who was raised on the Tuscarora Indian Reservation in Niagara County, New York, just outside Niagara Falls, still resides in the area and teaches in Buffalo, NY. The book has been longlisted for the 2020…
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About E.L.T. Harris-Bickford
From West Country Poets: Their Lives and Their Works; Being an Account of About Four Hundred Verse Writers of Devon and Cornwall, With Poems and Extracts. ed. by W.H.Kearley Wright. London: Elliot Stock, 1896 bick View Harris-Bickford’s poem The Falls of Niagaraford bio …