Clare Harner, poet of immortality

Honoring the life and poetry of Clare Harner Lyon (1909-1977): Kansas poet and California transplant, author of the cherished bereavement poem "Immortality" aka "Do not stand by my grave and weep."

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Monday, January 27, 2025

Two poems by Clare Harner in the Detroit NEWS

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Properly credited to "Clare Harner," these short pieces from 1935-6 were submitted to Elmer C. Adams, longtime poetry editor for t...
Tuesday, May 21, 2024

Clare Harner's "Immortality" selected by Hope Ridings Miller for reprinting in the Washington Post on Christmas Eve, 1934

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On Monday, December 24, 1934  The Washington Post reprinted Clare Harner's original poem "Immortality" with five others, all ...
Monday, September 26, 2022

Kisses at the Turnstile Gate

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Transcribed below from "Choir Practice," A Chorus of Contemporary Poetry, conducted by Ellen M. Carroll" in the Charleston  E...

No Need for a Band

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From "Choir Practice," A Chorus of Contemporary Poetry, conducted by Ellen M. Carroll" in the Charleston Evening Post , Nove...

With Song

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From "Choir Practice," A Chorus of Contemporary Poetry, conducted by Ellen M. Carroll" in the Charleston Evening Post , Frida...
Friday, February 25, 2022

He May Not Choose

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Here is another poem by Clare Harner collected in "Choir Practice," a monthly column of contemporary poetry selected by Charleston...
Wednesday, March 17, 2021

Three poems by Clare Harner

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Shown above, page 274 from my personal copy of Important American Poets , ed. Edith Warren (Valiant House, 1938) with three poems by Clare H...
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