Our dear friend, Connie Norgren, died Monday. She was a wonderful, caring woman who spent her life making her community better. She was a committed public school teacher for decades, as well as a political activist, fighting against military recruitment in the schools. Her love and passion was poetry–she was an award winning poet. We were fortunate to have had her as a guest on Arts Express several times to read her poetry and talk about her writing. Here’s an interview and poetry reading featuring Connie. If you put her name into the blog’s search bar, you’ll find more:
Jack Shalom
Musings, Memories, and Magic
Thanks for pointing her out Jack.
A lot of us would have missed,
…’a good one’.
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O, Jack, for some reason I’m just stumbling across your tributes to Connie and her poems. Thank you! Many Many Many thanks for upholding our friend Connie, whom I first met and became friends with in 1974.
Thanks, Mitchel. It was a tough year losing her, but her poems are still timeless. I know several of Connie’s friends have been working hard to have another book of her poetry published soon.