Maj ragain biography

Kent poet Maj Ragain, age 77, died in his home on April 19, 2018.
From Marilyn Holt: Major Dan Ragain or Maj as he was fondly called by friends was born September 15, 1940 in Olney, Illinois.
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Burley One Dark Sucker Fired: Collected Poems

Maj Ragain (September 15, 1940- ). Midwest American Poet. Born into a small, southeastern Illinois farm town. Home tutored, raised on Vernor Lake. Maj finished a BA in English at Eastern Illinois University in 1962. In 1963, he earned a MA in English at the University of Illinois. He has been an "off and on" faculty member at Kent State University since 1969, where he obtained a Ph.D in 1990. An active representative of poetry in the Kent community(where he has resided permanently since 1980), he served for twenty years as host to the open poetry readings at the Brady Caf'. The presence of others is commonplace in a Ragain poem, which takes aim at the spirit of the people he encounters, their stories, their tragedies, as well as his own search for the mystical life among family and friends. His first collection of poems, The Olney Dreadnot Book, was published in 1979(Shellys Press). A chap precedes, Jimmie the Vincennes Flyer(1977). Five other chapbooks were published in the 1980's before another collection titled Fresh Oil, L

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From Marilyn Holt:

Major Dan Ragain or Maj as he was fondly called by friends was born September 15, 1940 in Olney, Illinois. He grew up along Olney’s Vernon Lake and returned yearly throughout his life.

As a young child Maj had polio and as David Hassler the director of the Wick Poetry Center stated, “Ragain’s life-long poetic journey began at the age of 8 when polio left him unable to walk. In some ways he felt lucky that he was broken at such an early age where he was forced to know his own soul, and to get to know that deeper part of himself and speak through that wound.”

And know his soul – he truly did! Maj graduated from East Richland High School in 1958, received his Bachelor of Arts degree at Eastern Illinois University in 1962, his Master’s Degree at the University of Illinois in 1963 and earned his PhD in Literature a