Poetic Obituaries: Pamela Uschuk, [Maxwell] Silver's creative writing professor,

said her students used Monday's class to remember Max, telling stories, laughing, even throwing a cell-phone across the room, breaking it.

"We did whatever we could do," Uschuk said.

Toward the end of the program, Uschuk read a poem of Max's, and then an elegy of her own.

from The Durango Herald: Humility, kindness, and charisma: Student remembered

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