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What did Bard’s poetry mean to you?

This April 2003 SR file photo shows Tom Wobker, right, and Ron Nicklas, at Pennaluna & Co., a small independent stock brokerage firm on Sherman Avenue. After a dozen or so years of anonymity, Tom stepped out of the shadows for a well-deserved round of applause at the Blogfest 2016. (Jesse Tinsley/SR file photo)
This April 2003 SR file photo shows Tom Wobker, right, and Ron Nicklas, at Pennaluna & Co., a small independent stock brokerage firm on Sherman Avenue. After a dozen or so years of anonymity, Tom stepped out of the shadows for a well-deserved round of applause at the Blogfest 2016. (Jesse Tinsley/SR file photo)

I was asked by Washington poet laureate Tod Marshall to write a brief message re: my dozen or so years collaborating with Tom Wobker to publish his poems under the pseudonym, The Bard of Sherman Avenue. Tod is interested in what our Bard meant to us. Feel free to weigh in with your thoughts.

Question: What did The Bard's poetry mean to you?



D.F. Oliveria
D.F. (Dave) Oliveria joined The Spokesman-Review in 1984. He currently is a columnist and compiles the Huckleberries Online blog and writes about North Idaho in his Huckleberries column.

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