Rich Hanson
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| Gender | Male |
|---|---|
| Industry | Government |
| Occupation | Supervisory Food Safety Inspector |
| Location | Monmouth, Illinois, United States |
| Introduction | I was born in Duluth, MN in 1951. I married Nancy Brown (of Duluth) in 1975, and we've one son, Dylan, who was born in 1981. We've lived in Monmouth, IL since late 1987. That's the vital statistics out of the way. Politically I'm cynical with anarchist leanings. I love the Emma Goldman quote: "If your vote could change anything, they wouldn't let you have it." I love history, and believe that we could avoid a lot of misconceptions and mistakes if we studied our past . I've had poetry published in the North American Review (My "Wile E Coyote" poem was a finalist for the James Hearst Poetry Prize), and "At the Gravesite of Richard M Johnson" won the Award for the best poem submitted to the C.Sandburg College literary magazine the year it was published. I've had 2 poems nominated for "Best of the Net" 2012. I've also won 2 "Edgars," the top award given to poems written in the style of Master's Spoon River Anthology. I've had non fiction published in America's Civil War, and my story "The Slaughter Plant" was nominated for a Pushcart Award when it was published. |
| Interests | reading, writing, autograph collecting, minor league baseball, 19th century American history |
| Favorite Movies | Lawrence of Arabia, Dr. Zhivago, Ryan's Daughter, Ben-Hur, Patton, Zulu, the Indiana Jones movies, the American Pie movies, Blues Brothers, Animal House, The Ten Commandments, Little Big Man, Dogma, Inherit the Wind, Lord of the Rings Trilogy |
| Favorite Music | Bob Dylan, Joan Baez, Joni Mitchell, Leonard Cohen, James McMurtry, Anne Feeney, The Doors, Prince, Jethro Tull, Jimmy Webb (including Richard Harris' renditions), The Stones, the Beatles, Marvin Gaye, Neil Young, Harry Chapin, most classic rock and folk |
| Favorite Books | Moby Dick, Huckleberry Finn, Gore Vidal's historical novels, D H Lawrence's works, Driftless, Sarah Vowell's work, Norman Mailer, and Hemingway's short stories; The Voice that is Great Within Us, Poetry by Ted Kooser, Edgar Lee Masters, D H Lawrence, Carl Sandburg and Lord Byron |