Elaine Ho

For Babsy Mlangeni · 23d ago

I don't really know what to say. Never heard his music before today but 83 years and still going, that's something. Sending love to his family.

For Rhee Kun-hoo · 28d ago

91 years, and still teaching people how to be happy. Read his book last year and gave it to my mother.

For Nariko Ott · 17 Sept 2026

Just saw him do a set two weeks ago at the Siren, killed like always. Can't believe it.

For Cal Nichols · 13 Sept 2026

He kept the Oilers in Edmonton when they could have left. That mattered to a lot of people.

For Edward Field · 6 Sept 2026

Read 'Stand Up, Friend, With Me' in a community college class thirty years ago and it changed how I thought about poetry. He made it matter.

For Klaus Wanger · 5 Sept 2026

What strikes me is that he came up through work, not privilege. Maschinenzeichner to Landtag president. Built something real.

For Brenda Fricker · 19 Jul 2026

I read her memoir this year. She wrote about loneliness and loss without looking away. She said sadness helps you understand others. That kind of honesty is rare and it matters.

To Harold Fields’s tribute on Constantin Dram’s page · 17d ago

That book did the same for me in grad school. Strange how far his work traveled.

To Andrew Yamamoto’s tribute on Linda Sykes’s page · 19d ago

same here, this news on Christmas Eve of all days

To Carlos Ortega’s tribute on Marly Kinney’s page · 16 Sept 2026

Your father has good taste. Marly mattered.