Remembering Pennsylvania Poet Harry Humes

     A Pennsylvania poet whose work I enjoyed and learned from has recently passed away --  Harry Humes, who taught literature and film at Kutztown (PA) University and produced and edited  (until his retirement in 1999) a bi-annual poetry journal, Yarrow.

     Humes' poetry was not mathy  but I connected with it deeply because we had Pennsylvania in common,  Back in 2010, in the early days of this blog, I posted Humes' poem "The Butterfly Effect" at this link.  Here is a screenshot of the poem's opening lines:   

Humes' complete poem is available here.

For more of Humes's poetry, here is a link to a review by Dave Bonta of Humes' book, Underground Singing, and here is a link to the title poem of his collection, August Evening with Trumpet.