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From: will.dockery@gmail.com (W.Dockery)
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Subject: Re: PPB: February Gems / Allen R. Darrow
Date: Wed, 4 Jun 2025 02:54:45 +0000
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George J. Dance wrote:

> Will Dockery wrote:
>> George J. Dance wrote:
>>> Zod wrote:
>>>> George J. Dance wrote:
>
>>>>> Today's poem on Penny's Poetry Blog:
>>>>> February Gems, by Allan R. Darrow
>>>>> [...]
>>>>> Sparkling in candescent glory bright,
>>>>> Shone myriad diamonds in the morning light
>>>>> [...]
>>>>> https://gdancesbetty.blogspot.com/2023/02/february-gems-allen-r-darrow.html
>>>>>
>>>>> #pennyspoems
>>>>
>>>> Another new poet to me, I found his biography:
>>>>
>>>> https://www.google.com/books/edition/Local_and_National_Poets_of_America/QQ5aAAAAMAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=%22Allen+R.+Darrow%22+%22poet%22&pg=PA740&printsec=frontcover
>>
>>> An excellent find, Zod. There wasn't a lot to that bio, but it had his
>>> birth date, which is something PPP didn't have. (Ancestry.com had his
>>> death date, but only a year of birth.) So I've added that to the
>>> article.
>>
>>> I recognized the name ''Local and National Poets''; that's a reprint
>>> of the 1890 anthology where I found Robert F. Skillings. I checked the
>>> 1890 edition -- he was in it, too -- and added that info to his
>>> bibliography as well.
>>
>>> Scholarship lives.
>>
>> Great to see obscurity cleared up once again.
>
> I doubt that Darrow or Skillings will every make it into Wikipedia. PPP
> may be the only place on the web to find all that information.

An important Wiki to have, for the history of poetry.