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Last updated on November 8, 2024.
Vern Rutsala

Vern Rutsala was an American poet. Born in McCall, Idaho, he was educated at Reed College (B.A.) and the Iowa Writers' Workshop (M.F.A.). He taught English and creative writing at Lewis & Clark College in Portland, Oregon for more than forty years, before retiring in 2004. He also taught for short periods at the University of Minnesota, Bowling Green State University, University of Redlands, and the University of Idaho, and served in the U.S. Army, 1956–58. He died in Oregon on April 2, 2014.

They said daydreaming was against the law, but some of us escaped, slipping out windows and over cyclone fences, some of us flying away with heads like balloons. We taught our dogs to love the flavor of homework and became expert forgers of our parentsâ?? signatures. We knew they were teaching us how to die but some of us said no in our stealthy and stubborn ways.
The language is spare and under control and has a genuine immediacy...The poems never preach but are lined out with a cool and therefore devastating effect — © Vern Rutsala
The language is spare and under control and has a genuine immediacy...The poems never preach but are lined out with a cool and therefore devastating effect
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