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Will Inman (poet)

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was one of the earliest anthologies to include the poetry of Jimmy Santiago Baca as well as the pioneering feminist writer Barbara Mor. He completed a memoir in 1998 but Red Crane Books decided not to publish it. A copy of his memoir has been donated to the Rubenstein Rare Book Library at Duke
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in 1943. He took his mother's maiden name, Inman, in part because his name became "Will In Man". He worked in a shipyard during
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party, but became disillusioned with its lack of humanity and left the organization. He was called before the
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in 1956 where he was accused of being the head of the Communist Party in North Carolina. Inman
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in Rockville, Maryland. He has also been an activist for many humanist causes including
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where Inman attempted, unsuccessfully, to organize tobacco industry workers.
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Fired Up with You: Poems of a Niagara Vision (Border Publishing Co, 1977)
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in response to all questions. Attempting to begin life anew, he moved to
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This biographical article about an American poet born in the 1920s is a
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From 1964 to 1977 he edited and published the seminal poetry newsletter
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His letters, manuscripts, and publications are collected at
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Inman moved to Tucson, Arizona in 1973. His anthology
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Deaths from Parkinson's disease in the United States
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Wilmington, North Carolina
Tucson, Arizona
Duke University
Wilmington, North Carolina
Duke University
World War II
Blue Ridge Mountains
Communist
House Un-American Activities Committee
pleaded the fifth
New York City
Charles Bukowski
Clarence Major
Walter Lowenfels
William Packard
Ron Silliman
John Sinclair
American University
Montgomery College
anti-war
Parkinson's disease
Duke University
University of North Carolina Wilmington
Jimmy Santiago Baca
David Ray



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