http://www.ncwriters.org/whitecross/2012/02/29/robert-watson/ The Online Journal of the North Carolina Writers' Network Fri, 03 May 2013 23:58:44 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 http://www.ncwriters.org/whitecross/2012/02/29/robert-watson/comment-page-1/#comment-2853 June Milby Wed, 29 Feb 2012 20:00:07 +0000 http://www.ncwriters.org/whitecross/?p=760#comment-2853 I fitst met Bob and Betty Watson in 1967. Intense and intimidating at first glance, he had an intense love of life, a great sense of humour and was very kind. He and Fred Chappell were wonderfully kind to young and inexperienced women anxious to become writers and be accepted as “real” adults. The midwifery into adulthood was seemless and opened the door into lifelong friendships. In those adult friendships, the gentleness, kindness, intelligence and sensitivity shown by Bob and Betty became so important. Bob’s poetry, so powerful, had its own separate life displaying yet another facet of a complicated and good man. The world is lesser with his loss but greater because he lived among us. I will miss him deeply.

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