The Secret Life of L. E. Ward: Poetry 2001-2002

L. E. Ward has published 1000 long and short articles on American film history as a contributing editor (1982-2001) to such national film periodicals as Classic Images The Big Reel and Movie Collector¡¯s World. He also contributed to newspapers little magazines poetry anthologies encyclopedias; to national gay and naturist magazines; and as a poet and contributing editor to a national literary quarterly The Lost Generation Journal. He wrote his first poem at age 30 in January 1975. His life¡¯s work in poetry (1975-) has been published by iUniverse. The Collected Poems (1999) was followed in swift succession by Portraits of Life The Child Who Loved Movies and The Land Within.A lyric poet and a humanist Ward uses free verse as well as¡ªmore often than not¡ªtraditional forms. His topics include memoirs of his childhood; gay Eros; the ancient world; the movies; the arts and literat the lives of writers and other artists; world paintings and painters; and human rights.