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About the Poet
ROBERT GEORGE WETMORE is a native of New Milford, CT, born on July 11, 1952. He is a practicing lawyer with an office in Wallingford, Connecticut, where he is also a member of the Rotary Club. A Phi Beta Kappa graduate of the University of Connecticut's Honors Program in 1974, as a political science major magna cum laude, Mr. Wetmore has an interest in writing, creative, fiction and nonfiction, that he says his teachers nurtured and encouraged him. In the last 19 years, Wetmore has written approximately 300 poems, a number of which have appeared in small press journals such as BACK STREETS, Capper's, THE PEGASUS REVIEW, POET's PRIDE, THE PROFESSIONAL POET, BY-LINE and THE COUNTRY POET, and Canada's TROLL OF POETS. The Waterbury Republican American and the Meriden Record Journal have featured his work in their Sunday editions For St. John's Episcopal Church in New Milford, Bob created a collection of spiritual poems entitled "The St. John's Sequence," later incorporated into an anthology for Trinity Church, Branford called "The Wordsmith Carves in the Tree of Trinity" in 1992. The June 1983 edition of THE CONNECTICUT BAR JOURNAL features his historical article "US v. Tapping Reeve: Prosecutions for Seditious Libel in Connecticut in 1803" He has at various times edited Newletters and Magazines in connection with the Connecticut and American Bar Associations, from 1987-97 In 1998 he served as Potentate of Pyramid Shriners, and remains active in the promotion of the Shrine Hospitals. He is a member of the Board of Directors of the Connecticut Burns Care Foundation, and a legal advisor to the Connecticut Fire Safety Theater non-profit education organization. He is active as public relations free lancer for these groups. For inspiration, Wetmore looks to nature, the human condition, the spiritual life, and his musical background He has said "Poetry is the music of language and from a booming march or Mozart's clarinet concerto music heightens the senses to the beat and chords that are always around us." Other influences are the psycho-spiritual writings of M.Scott Peck,MD and the poetry of Robert Frost, Archibald Mc Leish, Blake,T.S. Eliot, Byron, Samuel Taylor Coleridge,,Wallace Stevens and novelists Samuel L. Clemens, Ernest Hemingway, William Styron and Herman Melville. WETMORE WORDWORKS LTD
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