Poetic Obituaries: Dipping into memory, Dr. [Daniel F.] McCall

discussed his love of poetry and his meager existence as a child. "My father had a small shoe store that went bankrupt when I was 9 years old," he said in the interview. "My mother had died when I was 8 months old, in the influenza epidemic of 1918. And I was in an orphanage for a while, but I ran away so many times they wouldn't take me back, and I lived with my father in a hotel."

While he was staying there, one of his teachers required each student to memorize a poem.

from The Boston Globe: Daniel McCall, BU teacher with enduring love of verse

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