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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Tuesday, December 15, 2020
Clare Harner’s ‘Immortality’ (1934)
Clare Harner’s ‘Immortality’ (1934): SINCE its rediscovery by John Wayne in 1977,1 the bereavement poem that begins ‘Do not stand at [by] my grave and weep’ has been variously traced to Hopi and....
Thursday, June 25, 2020
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