Tuesday, November 02, 2010

Poetic Obituaries: [Leonard] Bird would go on to teach

at FLC for 31 years, specializing in creative writing, mythology, William Shakespeare and the Bible as literature. He edited the Rocky Mountain Literary Review and was a regular at poetry readings at Maria's Bookshop.

He helped found the school's Peace Park and a speech he gave there inspired the Peace and Conflict Studies program.

He won Fort Lewis' Alice Admire Outstanding Teacher Award in 1994.

from The Durango Herald: Professor Leonard Bird dies at age 74

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