Posts Tagged “Gary Snyder”

Poet Gary Snyder Turns 83

May 16, 2013 by PaulM Posted in Culture, History, Lowell, Poetry Leave a Comment

Gary Snyder portrait (web photo courtesy of seapoetry.wordpress) One of my early poetry heroes was Gary Snyder, who turned 83 this month. Not only was I drawn to Snyder’s concise and precise back-country poems of the 1960s and ’70s, but I was also in tune to his thoughts about repairing…

Profile of Poet Gary Snyder at 81

June 20, 2011 by PaulM Posted in Culture, Education, History, Lowell, Poetry Leave a Comment

Poet and environmental activist Gary Snyder returned to his alma mater Reed College for the school’s centennial. He was profiled recently by Jeff Baker of The Oregonian newspaper for oregonlive.com. Snyder was one of my poet-heroes when I started out on the writing trail. He’s 81 years old and still traveling…