By: Franklin Bruno

“Do not sing to rain, poet, make it rain.”

By: Joshua Glenn

Celebrating thirteen HiLo Heroes about whom we wrote in 2014.

By: Douglas Wolk

The Dark Magus’s art is the moon’s…

By: Mark Kingwell

Her slant rhymes were radically proto-modernist.

By: Douglas Wolk

A strigine strongman had a mania…

By: Franklin Bruno

Clarity and balance, not disorientation, were his artistic mainsprings.

By: Mark Kingwell

Imaginative play that constructs a world available to experience.

By: Gary Panter

Without him, The Sixties as we know them might not have happened.

By: Franklin Bruno

Elected to poetry like a fucking nun with a “vocation.”

By: Mark Kingwell

From his mother’s sleep he fell into the State.

By: Alix Lambert

“Pain… calls me over and wants to know the secret of reaching you”

By: Lucy Sante

He brought Surrealism into being.

By: Anthony Miller

He mixed total irreverence with profound compassion.

By: Devin McKinney

The tubercular cousin in our family of vigorous visionaries.

By: Rob Walker

Phrases from NEW YORK TIMES Obit Headlines: 2013