Russell Atkins, Cleveland Poet Who Made Strides in Avant-Garde Scene, Dead at 98
A Clevelander for much of his life, Atkins was a friend and contemporary of Langston Hughes and Amiri Baraka
Russell Atkins, the poet who reached national attention with his ear for the avant garde and who rarely left his hometown of Cleveland, died in an assisted living facility in Midtown on August 15. He was 98...
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