Duane L. Herrmann's poem "Death in a Small German Town"
Internationally published, award-winning poet and historian, Duane L Herrmann has work translated into several languages, published in a dozen countries, in print and online. He has a sci-fi novel , seven full-length collections of poetry, a history book, and more chapbooks. His poetry has received the Robert Hayden Poetry Fellowship, inclusion in American Poets of the 1990s , Map of Kansas Literature (website), Kansas Poets Trail , and others. These accomplishments defy his traumatic childhood embellished by dyslexia, ADHD, and now, PTSD. He spends his time on the prairie with trees in the breeze and writes – and loves moonlight! Death in a Small German Town This death did not make “news,” not earth shattering, nor momentous to others, but it touched hearts on two continents. When visitors came from far away speaking strangely with family ties he opened his heart and told, for the first time – ever, of the war he knew and being prisoner in France and Georgia, USA. Astonishing ...