Mary Balazs

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spring 1980

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POETRY-IN-THE-SCHOOLS: 11 A.M.

“A poet is coming; / they are told to behave.”

BY MARY BALAZS - FROM ROANOKE REVIEW, 1980

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Mary Balazs (1931-2001) received her PhD from Pennsylvania State University, and went on to teach English at Virginia Military Institute, Washington and Lee University, and Dabney S. Lancaster Community College. She was a long-time and frequent contributor to Roanoke Review.