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Jim Cassius DeWitt

Born: 03/15/1925   Grand Rapids , MI
Died: 07/13/2003
Parents: George I. and Marjorie DeWitt
Children: James, Cynthia, Christopher, Antony
Address(es):
Last known address
Grand Rapids , MI

Writings

Image Title Genre Audience Publisher Date
Inventing From Me: How Writing Must Begin Non Fiction Adult Marysville, Mich.: Pen-Dec Educational Publications 1991
Primer Adult Purple Peek Productions 1990
The Zizzy Bird Connection Poetry Adult Marysville, Mich.: Pen-Dec Educational Publications 1989
Fingernail Souffle : thought bursts Poetry Adult Opelika, AL : Achoo Press 1988
Collecting Shrillshadows Poetry Adult Purple Peek Productions 1987
Night Balloon Fever Rising Poetry Adult Marysville, Mich.: Pen-Dec Educational Publications 1985
Breath Etchings Poetry Adult Quality 1984
Cloud Reflections in My Soup Poetry Adult Marysville, Mich. : Pen-Dec Press 1984
Spelunkers Sideshow Poetry Adult Kalamazoo, Mich. : Expedition Press 1980
Sprinting Into Sun Poetry Adult Marysville, Mich. : Pen-Dec Press 1979
Just in Time Poetry Adult Massachusetts : Fairmount Press 1972
The En-Dec System of writing and reading based on structural clues : a linguistic approach to learning encoding with decoding Non Fiction Adult Worcester, Mass. : Gallant Press 1972
Other writings:
- Has 34 book titles, 21 titles for classroom use. Published poems and stories in about 350 small press publications, literary magazines, journals, anthologies and others, starting in 1976 such as Peninsula Poets, Pegasus, Coffeehouse Poets Quarterly, Vegetarian Journal, Sisyphus, Michigan Natural Resources Magazine
What is the aim or goal of your writing: To keep on writing/creating/inventing as long as I can do it (it's going so very well, just seems to get better and better).

May inquiries be sent to you about doing workshops, readings: No

Donated books to the Authors & Illustrators database project: No

Skills:
Author
Poet

Education:

Degree Institution Location Date
Master of Fine Arts (M.F.A.) University of Oregon Eugene , OR 1963 -1966

Career:

Position Organization Location Date
Managing editor and fulltime writer publishing books for schools, libraries, school libraries PEN-DEC Press Grand Rapids , MI 1983
Teacher of language arts 1952 -1983
Taught at every level from elementary to adult education East China Schools East China Twp. , MI
- Active in Michigan Council for the Arts "Creative Writers in Schools" Program Greater Grand Rapids , MI
Comstock Park High School Comstock Park , MI
Forest Hills High School Grand Rapids , MI
Grandville Junior High Grandville , MI
Past president Michigan Council of Teachers of English
Writers/Poets Workshops

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