Tuesday, June 08, 2010

Poetic Obituaries: [Henrietta] Epstein founded the Poetry Resource Center

of Michigan to Detroit in the 1970s which later, under award-winning poet's eye M.L. Liebler, evolved into the Writer's Voice before becoming the Springfed Arts-Metro Detroit Writers organization it's known by today.

"For those who didn't know her, Henrietta was our special literary treasure," Wayne State University professor and 2010 Barnes & Noble Writers for Writers Award winner Liebler says in a statement. "For those who did know her and love her, it is hard now to imagine a Detroit without our literary lion who fought so hard for funding and programs for all of us.

from Detroit Free Press: Funeral for Michigan poet Henrietta Epstein set for Tuesday

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