Madge McKeithen

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Growing up amid the white sand and tall pines of eastern North Carolina, Madge McKeithen headed to Tidewater Virginia to the College of William and Mary read more

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Love/is no less practical/than a coffee grinder*

June 9, 2013
New York

Responding on my mother’s behalf to the sympathy cards she’s received read more

Tags: Cameron, combat, gratitude, Greenwich Village, Jack Gilbert, James Wright, Jane Hirshfield, Leighton McKeithen, North Carolina, obligation, poems, Robert Bly, Seamus Heaney, thanks, Tony Hoagland, WWII

Abundance

May 16, 2013
New York

 

Leighton B. McKeithen, Jr.
March 12, 1925 – May 8, 2013

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Tags: Cameron, father, Fayetteville, Leighton McKeithen, North Carolina, poetry, Presbyterian, tribute, William Stafford, WWII

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