for this newspaper, it was obvious that there would be no one waiting to take his place. Who else could draw on 50 years of experience in reviews, not to mention correspondence with some of the greatest poets of the 20th century, and decades of writing and translating poetry? Guenther's retirement in 2003 meant other good writers could also express their opinions about new poetry, but five decades of such experience is not possible to replicate.
from St. Louis Post-Dispatch: Saluting a life in poetry
also St. Louis Post-Dispatch: Longtime Missouri poet, Charles Guenther, dies at 88
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