Apr232024

Kenneth Patchen

Kenneth Patchen On December 13, 1911, Kenneth Patchen was born in Niles. A poor boy throughout his childhood, he spent his time playing football and working in a factory. He enjoyed publishing in his school newspaper, kept a diary from the age of twelve, and began reading Homer, Dante, Shakespeare, Robert Burns, and Herman Melville. After high school, he moved to Wisconsin and attended Alexander Meiklejohn's Experimental College for one year and then the University of Wisconsin. Read more on Last.fm

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# Title Plays
1State Of The Nation
1523
2Murder Of Two Men By A Young Kid Wearing Lemon Colored Gloves
547
3as I opened the window
436
4Lonesome Boy Blues
419
5Do The Dead Know What Time It Is?
393
6The Murder Of Two Men By A Young Kid Wearing Lemon Colored Gloves
321
7I Went To The City
310
8The Lute In The Attic
299
9Limericks
252
10Four Blues Poems: "There's a Place" / They Won't Let You In There / A Sigh is A Little Altered/ The Lonesome Boy Blues
219

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