Ron Singer
The Dead Were the First…
“The dead were the first to move to the suburbs.” I came across this factoid in a pamphlet containing a useful map, plus blurb, which I was given (free, donation requested) at the gateway to Greenwood Cemetery, Brooklyn, New York, which is listed in the National Register of Historic Sites.
This migratory pattern has persisted ever since the Cemetery opened, in 1838, as surely as day follows night; or death, life.
Ron Singer’s poetry has appeared, e.g., in alba, Aemone Sidecar, Arlington Literary Journal (featured poet, July, 2010), Borderlands: The Texas Poetry Review, The Brooklyn Rail, Evergreen Review, Front Porch Review, Grey Sparrow, The Hampden-Sydney Poetry Review, New Works Review (featured poet, Fall 2008), Third Wednesday, Waterways: Poetry in the Mainstream, Windsor Review, and Word Riot. Some of Singer’s poems have been anthologized and set to music. His two published books are A Voice for My Grandmother (Ten Penny Players/Bard Press) and the Second Kingdom (Cantarabooks). He has just completed a collection of interviews with pro-democracy activists across Africa, called Uhuru Revisited (Africa World Press/Red Sea Press, forthcoming).