when he succumbed to leukemia last month. A poet, Jason also founded the Writer's Voice program at New York's West Side YMCA, which spread nationwide, furthering poetry's far-flung infiltrations. Jason's poem "One Day I Will Die" enjoins us to hug each instant hard enough to forge a diamond from the coal. He did. For that, and for his words, I'm grateful. from Mary Karr: The Washington Post: Poet's Choice
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