Authors and Illustrators Database

Jim Cassius DeWitt

Born: 03/15/1925  Grand Rapids, Microsoft.AspNetCore.Mvc.ViewFeatures.StringHtmlContent
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

Awards:

Name Date
Nominated for Pushcart Prize Award 1997
1st place national poetry contest, San Francisco Bay Area Poets Coalition 1990
Poetry winner, Big Rapids "Pioneer's" Michigan Sesquicentennial Contest 1987
Winner of Seminar 1977 Contest, Montgomery, AL 1977
Trophy, "Best Poet of the Year", Sarnia
- Award received for following years: 1976, 1978 		1976
Certificate, "Honorary Irish Poet"

Inclusion in biographical or critical works:

Name Date
Who's Who of Michigan Poets 1982

Education:

Degree Institution Location Date
Post Graduate studies University of Michigan Ann Arbor, MI 1967
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) Michigan State University East Lansing, MI 1955-1959
Bridgewater State Massachusetts
Calvin College Grand Rapids, MI
Montague High School Montague, MI
Master of Arts (M.A.) University of Michigan Ann Arbor, MI
Washington State Bellingham, WA

Career:

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

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