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This poem is from the chapbook Least Said by James Broschart (Finishing Line Press), and can be found at https://finishinglinepress.com/product/least-said-by-james-broschart/
James Broschart was raised in small-town Pennsylvania during the Great Depression and World War II as a free-range child who, along with most kids, had fathers abroad at war and mothers working out of the home. It did him no harm. He earned degrees from St. John’s College in Annapolis and from the Johns Hopkins University, where he studied poetry with Elliott Coleman in the Writing Seminars. He is retired from careers in college teaching, public television production, technical writing, and bookstore management. He has written about lifelong learning, safe high schools, and marine science for various federal agencies. He taught English composition to sailors at sea and developed emergency management manuals for U.S. nuclear sites. Residing in southwest Virginia in the midst of the Blue Ridge mountains, retirement has given him the opportunity to turn back to poetry. A previous collection of poems, Old News, is published by Finishing Line Press (2018). Having lived through the terms of fifteen U.S. presidents, some good ones, he is eager to see what will happen next.
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