Marvin Bell was born August 3, 1937.
He died in 2020 after publishing over 20 books.
The first Poet Laureate of Iowa gave me a cento
through lines appearing
in his 1984 collection:
Drawn by Stones, by Earth, by Things that Have Been in the Fire.
(Antheneum, New York)
The Literary journal Vita Poetica recently published my Marvin Bell poem
"Putting Words Next to Silence."
You may read/listen to this cento poem at
https://www.vitapoetica.org/poetry/putting-words-next-to-silence
(With thanks to all at Vita Poetica.)
"Being a grownup means knowing that things end."
-Marvin Bell
(2018 Interview The Rumpus)
