Stephen Dobyns | The Sun Magazine

Stephen Dobyns

Stephen Dobyns lives in Searsport, Maine. His third book of poems, Heat Death, will be published by Atheneum in 1980.

— From November 1979
Essays, Memoirs, & True Stories

The Jes Plain Folks Poems

The poems of the Jes Plain Folks School can be broadly categorized as “Remark Poems” and “What If Poems.” There is nothing necessary about them, nor do they give the sense of having needed to be written. They may be whimsical.

November 1979
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