Larry Goodell

Larry Goodell:  was born in Roswell, New Mexico in 1935 and has been in Placitas since 1963.  He studied at USC in Los Angeles, studied with Robert Creeley in NM, went to the Vancouver Poetry Conference of 1963 to study with Olson, Ginsberg, Duncan, Whalen, went to the Berkeley Poetry Conference in 1965, and married photographer /artist Lenore Goodell in 1968.  He founded Duende Press in 1964.  He dedicates this poem to the newly-elected President of the Republic of Chile: Gabriel Boric.  Long ago, poets conceived of a flower that did not fade and named it amaranth.  And to be “amaranthine” is to be undying.