ELLSWORTH (AP) – Sylvester Pollet, a University of Maine creative writing instructor and poet, has died of cancer. He was 68.

Pollet, who was assistant editor of the National Poetry Foundation, edited and published 100 single-sheet collections of poems between 1994 and 2006. The compilations, which he called “Backwoods Broadsides,” were mailed across the country and overseas. UMaine English Professor Burt Hatlen says Pollet’s own poems were “admired and fairly widely read.” Pollet died last Thursday.

Information from: Bangor Daily News, http://www.bangornews.com

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