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Name:  David Hoyt Johnson

Location:  Minnesota, USA

Age:  50

Pets:  N/A

Favorite Poet:  William Carlos Williams

Favorite Poem:  Acquainted with the Night (Frost)

How long have you been writing poetry?: 30 years

What/Who inspires you to write?: I am inspired to write by the passions of life, the demons of the dark, the confluence of wandering ways, the tragedy that is man, and the joy of in a child's laughter.

Favorite Quote or Motto:

"This above all: to thine own self be true,
And it must follow, as the night the day,
Thou canst not then be false to any man"

Writing Awards, Publications, and other Achievements: The Poet's Palette, Brownstones and Sand, The Immortals, ( EPI Publications ) Out of the Shadows, Emerging from Twilight, ( Shadow Poetry Collections ). Recognition's from: World of Poetry, Shadow Poetry, Minnesota Literacy Council.

Additional Poet Information: N/A