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Newspaper articles/columns:
See the Nikki Patrick column in the Pittsburg Morning Sun below at:
http://www.morningsun.net/stories/030508/peo_253858157.shtml
The poet's son, Kevin, said it felt like
he had brought his father's poems home to the campus, where the majority of 200 poems had been written.
Gray is pictured below in a photograph
that ran with the Patrick piece. He is holding the book This Is Worth Looking Into that led Gray to publish
To the Prairie and to God containing poems from This Is Worth Looking Into and many more, thus making it
a much larger book than his father's original bound effort.
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| Kevin Gray presenting poems at Pitt State from the Pittsburg Morning Sun |
Read the whole story advance story below in the Pitt State University Collegio blog site at:
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| Collegio advance story on Kevin Gray's planned program at Pitt State |
The Pittsburg Morning Sun covered the publishing of my father's book in a column by Nikki Patrick, who writes Patrick's
People.
The Patrick piece can still be found at:
See the Morning Sun pages below:
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| The July 4th 2007 Pittsburg Morning Sun coverage of the newly published To the Prairie and to God |
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| Kevin Gray pictured in the Pittsburg Morning Sun story about his father's posthumosly published book |
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| Nikki Patrick, Pittsburg Morning Sun's Patrick's People columnist wrote about Harold Gray |
The Edwards County Times Advocate from West Salem, Illinios, Dad's home town paper, wrote a nice story about my
father and his poems. See next two sample pages below:
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| Dad's home town paper the Edwards County Times Advocate in West Salem, Illinois |
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| Second page story in the Times Advocate from West Salem, Illinois |
Long before I found a publisher for my Dad's poems, I wrote a piece for the Kansas City Star about my father and
his poetry. See KC Star piece below:
Although I never knew of my father's writing ability, I knew he could write. He wrote well and loved to
write personal and business letters. But I'm not sure how he would have accepted email. I began writing as a staff
writer for the Kansas State College of Pittsburg (now Pittsburg State University) newspaper, the Collegio. Unknown to
me, Dad had published several of his poems in that very paper. He never told me. Since my days as a student journalist,
I spent 30 years as an English/journalism teacher at Paola High School. I also felt that the journalism teacher should
also be practicing what I was preaching, so in 1989, I began writing columns for the Miami County Republic. The following
is one such column with a Pitt State connection. See the following piece:
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| The poet's son has been a columnist for years |
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