2024 Peace Corps Writers’ Poetry Award Winner
Mycue, Edward CV 2024 San Francisco A. Life I graduated Arlington with an A.S. cum laude in 1957 and went…
I Am a Fact Not a Fiction: Selected Poems
Edward Mycue (Ghana 1961-63)
Edward Mycue (Ghana 1961-63)
San Francisco poet Edward Mycue was born in Niagara Falls, New York, and raised in Texas. He was a Lowell Fellow at Boston University Graduate School of Public Relations and Communications, a WGBH-TV Boston intern, a Macdowell Colony Fellow, a Peace Corps teacher in Ghana, editor at the Norton Coker Press, and he taught American Literature at the International Peoples College in Elsinore, Denmark.
He has had 18 books or chapbooks published. His poems appear in multiple anthologies and journals. I Am a Fact Not a Fiction is a selection of poems culled from three areas of interest: War and Peace, Life / Time Memory, and History.
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“The precision of Ed Mycue’s dreamscape is laser-sharp and as warm as chocolate. Images rush pell-mell across the page, jumbling and tossing each other aside as one supplants the other in a rush to break the barrier between words and meaning, perception and feeling.”
— Laura Kennelly, Ph.D., Associate Editor, Bach: Journal of the Riemenschneider, Bach Institute
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I Am a Fact Not a Fiction: Selected Poems
by Edward Mycue (Ghana 1961-63)
Wordrunner Press
October 2023
58 pages
$10.00 (paperback); $2.99 (Kindle)
I was surprised and so happy to have a book of my poems recognized in this Peace Corps Writers category. It is an honor.
Mycue, Edward CV 2024 San Francisco
A. Life
I graduated Arlington with an A.S. cum laude in 1957 and went then to North Texas for my B.A. in January 1959 magna cum laude continuing 1960 with graduate study in Government and English and as a teaching fellow a year: went up to Boston Univ as a Lowell Fellow in Cooperative Broadcasting recipient and working 3 days a week at WGBH-TV then in Cambridge on the M.I.T. campus on Massachusetts Avenue just over the Charles River Bridge from Boston (over a former roller rink on the 2nd floor). Then I went into the Peace Corps first group to go abroad and at 1961 August’s end was off to Ghana to teach (the new secondary school in Acherensua in the Brong-Ahafo state or district within the old Kumasi kingdom. Then my dad died and I came home and got a job for the regional office of the U.S. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare’s division of State Merit Systems travelling 5 Southwestern States for the first 3 years and the next 3 in Washington, D. C. in the Office of the Secretary’s Office of State Merit Systems. After that I was off for 2 and a half years to Europe working at various jobs including the harvests in Southern France (the grape wine harvest), Rotterdam on changing ships to containers during the time the Red Sea was blocked, and other jobs. When I returned to the USA it was to San Francisco CA I came since my now late sister Margo Mycue and cousin Michael O’Connor had a room for me. Then after arriving June 1, 1970 I would work for the New Shakespeare Company-San Francisco. Then for Panjandrum Press (that published my first book of poems DAMAGE WITHIN THE COMMUNITY in 1973, and following that in the various Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco bookstores (which led to working in others including the Graduate Theological Center UC-Berkeley and Stacey’s in San Francisco (which closed in 2009 after 85 years in business) and have continued as a free-lance writer of Poetry mostly and still at it today at age 87 in San Francisco where I am sharing my life since 1971 with Richard Steger a painter and with whom have had many volumes of his art and my poetry published included in is the current publication I AM A FACT NOT A FICTION published by Wordrunner Press October 2023).
B. Schooling
Edward Mycue born in Niagara Falls NY March 21, 1937 and from age eleven in 1948 raised in Dallas TX where I attended Our Lady of Perpetual Help elementary school and then N.R.Crozier Technical High School 1951-5, and after that first to Arlington (now the U.OF TEXAS AT ARLINGTON) 1955-1957; the to NORTH TEXAS STATE-Denton TX where I taught during graduate study in the government department in 1959 the required beginning courses in Federal, State, and local government for students needed to graduate for a degree. Then I went to Boston University on a grant from the Lowell Institute for Cooperative Broadcasting, pre-PBS consortium of various universities in the New England area–with Boston University, Tufts, Northeastern, Harvard, M.I.T. etc
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