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Spring 1990 • Vol. XII No. 2 Poetry |

Midwest Haiku

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Norbert Blei (August 23, 1935 – April 23, 2013) was an American writer of non-fiction, fiction, and poetry, and a watercolor artist. He wrote, The Watercolored Word and Paint Me a Picture, Make Me a Poem, books of concrete poems and paintings. His poem/paintings were exhibited in the United States, Poland, Spain, South America, and North Africa.

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