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06/12/2004 Entry: "William Benson (?-2004)"

I got some sad news last night: J LHLS's poetry editor, William Benson, died of non-Hodgkin's lymphoma. Because, as artists do, he worked jobs that didn't offer health insurance so he had it for many years before it was diagnosed and treated. The last time I saw to him he was between chemo courses and he was thin but seemed okay. The last email I had, he was worried about the bone marrow transplant his doctors were planning. And then Bob Tribble emailed me a poem that was read at the the funeral I didn't know about.

I wish I'd taken the trouble to know William better and help him more during his illness. We met in a poetry workshop in 1999 and he was a great poetry editor for J LHLS. I don't think he was forty years old yet and I think he had a lot more to say as a poet. We're lucky we have what he left us.

Rest in peace, William.

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