Poetic Obituaries: A poet and essayist, [Bohn] Stone

was inducted into the Georgia Writers Hall of Fame in 2007.

According to a University press release, Stone said that he believed his duty as a writer was to prepare for "a good death."

He was a frequent contributor to the New York Times Magazine. His first book of poems, The Smell of Matches, was published by Rutgers University Press in 1972.

from The Emory Wheel: Stone, 72, Remembered As Doctor and Poet

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