Bill Denham
Oakland, California, United States
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<p>A Southern boy, growing up in the middle of the last century, Bill Denham, learned to love the soft sounds and rhythms of the words he heard around him—a love of language that now, decades later, is evident when he speaks the poems he has taken in, learned by heart.</p> <p> </p> <p>Educated in the South at Davidson College and at UC Berkeley in the mid-sixties where he received his MA in English Literature, he rejected a promising academic career after five years of teaching at Luther College and the University of Hawaii to go back to the land in the mountains of West Virginia. His subsequent journey of self discovery has been turbulent, painful and ultimately rewarding. He is now, at the age of 70, an accomplished letterpress printer at Painted Tongue Press in Oakland, California and a prolific, unpublished poet. He embraced that calling a decade ago—at the turn of the millennium, after hearing Mary Oliver’s poem, <em>The Journey, </em>spoken aloud.</p> <p><span class="st"> The forthcoming <em>Daring to Repair</em> anthology from Wising Up Press will include his first published poem, <em>Do you remember, Dad? </em><br /></span></p> <p><span class="st"><em>Photograph by Linda Elvira Piedra, 2009.<br /></em></span></p> <p><em> </em></p> <p> </p>
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