Glen Martin Fitch

Description (50 words) When the new is old and experiments become conventions, perhaps it’s time to review the old ways with newer eyes. Enclosed are songs, sonnets, psalms, monologs, and narrativ...view moreDescription (50 words) When the new is old and experiments become conventions, perhaps it’s time to review the old ways with newer eyes. Enclosed are songs, sonnets, psalms, monologs, and narratives. Sections explore addictions, community, love, parenting, and the poetic tradition. You will encounter injustice, humor, indignation, the lyric, and erotic. Enjoy. Acknowledgements I would like to express my gratitude Dr. Margaret Drugovich, President of Hartwick College, Oneonta New York and late mentors Dr. Norman Hutman and Joan B Gratz, and Dr. Ruth apRoberts, of University of California at Riverside and fellow students: Margaret Kuman, Candace Aldrich, Cheryl Hurd, Ellen Jaramillo, Lauren Matthews and Stephen Rice for their encouragement and guidance. I wish to thank Lee Balan and the late Patricia A’Dlessandro of “Quest” Palm Springs, CA and Greg Bell, Gedda Ilvers, Annette Robinson and the late Bill Hickok of “Beyond Baroque” Venice, CA and Hiram Sims of the Community Literary Initiative of the University of Southern California who shared their experience. Dear friends I wish to honor are the late Barbara Anne O’Brian, Frank Giordano, and Terry Girard, and dedicated friends Fred Jealous, Peter Van Coutren, and Ellen Ortiz whose belief in me keeps me motivated. Copyright to all poetry, prose, and drama will be transferred to Hartwick College upon my death. Biography Glen Fitch is a sixteen century poet lost in the twenty-first century. He was born in Buffalo, New York and received an BA from Hartwick College, Oneonta New York. He continued to write poetry while working in retail sales and volunteering in family violence prevention. Now he sips fog among the redwoods and oaks of Monterey Bay.view less