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Failed to connect to MySQL: (1203) User howardkn already has more than 'max_user_connections' active connectionsPath: ...!weretis.net!feeder9.news.weretis.net!news.nk.ca!rocksolid2!i2pn2.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: will.dockery@gmail.com (W.Dockery) Newsgroups: alt.arts.poetry.comments,rec.arts.poems Subject: Re: PPB: February Gems / Allen R. Darrow Date: Wed, 4 Jun 2025 02:54:45 +0000 Organization: novaBBS Message-ID: <40e4aba173987c47199476b39e4e05fc@www.novabbs.com> References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Info: i2pn2.org; logging-data="3193091"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@i2pn2.org"; posting-account="Vf9CM7g99yqfGvzEHTw0bhrjcIfvzYBBhUuRma0rLuQ"; User-Agent: Rocksolid Light X-Rslight-Posting-User: acd0b3e3614eaa6f47211734e4cbca3bfd42bebc X-Rslight-Site: $2y$10$QAGIrZ6IJL77bmOAtbl4/eUMOxT.epY2Ec215SxZpc8MQBeON70TC X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 4.0.0 Bytes: 2559 Lines: 38 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.