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Alec Ream is a writer living in Virginia. His poetic work has been printed in Decanto Poetry (West Sussex, UK) 2013-14, Western Viewpoints 2014 (Woodinville, WA) and Poetic Images: the Great American West 2015 (Woodinville, WA), The Society of Classical Poets Annual Journals 2015-19 (Mt Hope, NY), The Rocky Point Times 2016 (Puerto Peñasco, Mexico) and four issues of The Lyric (Jericho, VT) 2015-25. His short story Of Money & Luck was printed in the Autumn Journal 2019 of The Writers Guild of Virginia.
A member of the Demosthenian Literary Society at UGA, he wrote on Lookout Mountain, and continued to write, lecture and work for Delta Kappa Epsilon HQ. He was first published reading to the pledge class of Michigan DKE, in Ann Arbor in 2008. Recently, his poem Green Fire was read at the Washington Literary Society & Debating Union at UVA.
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Thank you all for your thoughtful comments. I appreciate each one!
Bruce, the painting is very much worth consideration, both its particulars and the essence less easy to define. You have…
I should add, the gifts Nature unstintingly provides are what we customarily call Providence.
In the first poem, I think the author is onto something. Nature (Creation) is a balm for every trouble; it…
And the aid of rarer, more valuable, more desirable, lastingly iconic art. Confirmed antidote to toxins too common.