In Memoriam ...

From a notice in Commercial Drive Live, I read that local poet and poetry leader T. Paul Ste Marie has died, perhaps from a stroke.  That's a sad loss for his friends and for the friends of poetry in the city.

T. Paul was a really alive guy -- energetic, enthusiastic.  I knew him best eight to ten years ago when I was performing regularly at Bukowskis and he was running another poetry outlet on Main. He had suffered a brain aneurysm a year or so ago, but I thought he had recovered.

He was a guaranteed original and he will be missed.