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1. Suburban Life - Poetry leaders featured at Westmont coffeehouse
www.chicagosuburbannews.com/st - [Cached]Published on: 1/26/2007 Last Visited: 1/26/2007
The featured poets for January are Mardelle Fortier and Don Cornwell.
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Cornwell, a native of Cedar Rapids, Iowa, and graduate of Northwestern University, became involved in poetry after retiring from a business career in computers, marketing, training and writing. He has been the president of Illinois State Poetry Society, Poets Club of Chicago and Poets and Patrons.
His light verse was published regularly in "The Chronicle of the Horse" in the last decade. His storybook poems include "Horace the Pony and You" and "Harry the Hedgehog and You." He has also printed a collection of poems called "Sense & Nonsense." -
2. Suburban Life - Religion notes
www.chicagosuburbannews.com/st - [Cached]Published on: 7/30/2006 Last Visited: 7/31/2006
Christine Swanberg and Don Cornwell are the two featured poets for July 30.
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Cornwell is a past president of Illinois State Poetry Society, Poets Club of Chicago, and Poets and Patrons. In recent years his light verse has been published regularly in "The Chronicle of the Horse." -
3. Bios of Poets in the Illinois State Poetry Society
www.illinoispoets.org/bio.htm - [Cached]Published on: 5/2/2006 Last Visited: 10/4/2007
Don Cornwell
Don Cornwell was born and grew up in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. He graduated from Northwestern University where he studied political science and journalism. Now retired (most of the time), he spent his business career in the computer field in marketing, training and writing positions. Don is a past president of Illinois State Poetry Society, Poets Club of Chicago, and Poets and Patrons. In the past decade his light verse was published regularly in The Chronicle of the Horse. His storybook poems: Horace the Pony and You and Harry the Hedgehog and You are in print as is a collection of his poetry, Sense & Nonsense. Don's Petrarchan Sonnet "Requited" Love won a first prize in the 1998 Chicagoland Poetry Contest.
