| Ralph L. Kinsey — a Navarre, Ohio lawyer Ralph Kinsey is a native of Dennison, Ohio. He received his B.A from the College of Wooster and did post-graduate work at the College of Languages, Middlebury, Vermont. He taught English for a year at Uhrichsville high school, and then obtain his law degree from Ohio State. Three of his poems appear in the 1939 Anthology of American Poetry. [Source: Evening Independent (Massillon, Ohio), Nov. 1, 1947, p. 14] A foreword to Kinsey's first collection of poems (by Loring Williams) indicates that the time of the publication of that first collection, Kinsey had been practicing law for fourteen years. Williams notes that Kinsey "believes that he understands and knows how to use the machinery of prosody, for he has studied it every bit as assiduously as he has the General Code of Ohio." [Loring Williams, "Foreword," to Ralph L. Kinsey, Sand Against the Wind (Cleveland, Ohio: The Press of American Weave, 1954)] Poetry Ralph L. Kinsey, Sand Against the Wind (Cleveland, Ohio: The Press of American Weave, 1954)(Durham Chapbook Number Nine) ____________, The Mouth of Sarah (Cleveland: American Weave Press, 1962) ____________, The Last Straw (Torrance, California: Hors Commerce Press, 1965) |
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