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StephenGriffith: Somebody—A fugitive little lyric heard by Edwin Ford Piper from the singing of his pioneer mother in the 1880’s on a farm near Auburn, Nebraska.

iowa_nwp: This just in: NWP writer Julia Conrad has won a 2020 Edwin Ford Piper Memorial Prize from the University of Iowa! Congrats, Julia!


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The Wild Old Wicked Man
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Because I am mad about women
I am mad about the hills,'
Said that wild old wicked man
Who travels where God wills.
'Not to die on the straw at home.
Those hands to close these eyes,
That is all I ask, my dear,
From the old man in the skies.
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