Poetic Obituaries: From the mid-1960s on, Ms. [Maureen] Cannon's

rhymed observations about modern life proliferated in publications like Good Housekeeping, Ladies' Home Journal and Reader's Digest. She was a regular contributor, always in verse, to the Metropolitan Diary column of The New York Times and to Jersey Diary, in this newspaper's New Jersey Weekly section.

from The New York Times: Maureen Cannon, 84, a Poet of the Everyday, in Light Verse, Dies

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