tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4014415529871703586.post8621294623466725156..comments2023-12-16T02:44:20.427-06:00Comments on Reginald Shepherd's Blog: Donald Britton, 1951-1994Reginald Shepherdhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11965170916626482963noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4014415529871703586.post-10092955013910347432009-08-25T15:35:14.522-06:002009-08-25T15:35:14.522-06:00Thank you for this post about Donald. I knew him g...Thank you for this post about Donald. I knew him growing up and became close friends with him in college (the University of Texas at Austin) where he was my brother's roommate. He was a wonderful man and one of the funniest people I have ever met. We both moved to NYC in 1979 and I saw him occasionally there, but lost touch after I returned to Texas. <br /><br />He was always passionate about his writing and I am thrilled to find that others are keeping his poetry alive.Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04653906665253287921noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4014415529871703586.post-28635854736140784572008-01-10T23:34:00.000-06:002008-01-10T23:34:00.000-06:00Reginald,Thank you for the post. Donald Britton w...Reginald,<BR/><BR/>Thank you for the post. Donald Britton was an incredible man of great talent. His was my friend in college and he shared his earliest poems with me for which I still feel honored. I am saddened by his death albeit 14 years removed and wish you the best in your efforts. KevinDKevinDhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00357917419158013873noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4014415529871703586.post-40837363701184163442007-01-29T10:41:00.000-06:002007-01-29T10:41:00.000-06:00Thanks for these suggestions for presses to contac...Thanks for these suggestions for presses to contact regarding my Donald Britton selected poems project. I will definitely follow up on them.Reginald Shepherdhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11965170916626482963noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4014415529871703586.post-15319250686763073362007-01-23T18:15:00.000-06:002007-01-23T18:15:00.000-06:00I remember Donald Britton's death vividly because ...I remember Donald Britton's death vividly because he died in the same year as Assotto Saint and several months before Essex Hemphill. After David Wojnarowicz's death two years before it seemed that all of the brilliant gay poets and writers that I admired since 1986 were passing. <br /><br />Perhaps these presses may be interested (and forgive me if you already know about them):<br /><br /><a href="http://www.suspectthoughtspress.com/">Suspect Thoughts Press</a><br /><br /><a href="http://www.mhpbooks.com">Melville House Press</a>Bloodbelterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06110795715287963703noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4014415529871703586.post-32943468415428125532007-01-19T15:53:00.000-06:002007-01-19T15:53:00.000-06:00Reginald, thank you for sharing. & thank you for k...Reginald, thank you for sharing. & thank you for keeping an otherwise lost voice alive.<br /><br />These poems remarkably combine a modest tone w/remarkable turns of phrase & thought. They're not clever to be clever. No snark.Lawrence LaRiviere Whitehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00060484548455926167noreply@blogger.com