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Tim Dlugos (born Francis Timothy Dlugos) (August 5, 1950 – December 3, 1990) was an American poet.Born in Springfield, Massachusetts, he grew up in Arlington, Virginia.
In 1968, Dlugos joined the Christian Brothers, a Catholic religious order and entered their college, La Salle College, in Philadelphia. He left the Brothers in 1971 to openly embrace a politically active, gay lifestyle. He eventually left La Salle before graduating and moved to Washington, D.C..
Dlugos worked on Ralph Nader's Public Citizen and become heavily involved with the Mass Transit poetry scene. His first book of poetry, High There, was published by the groundbreaking Some of Us Press.
Describing his poetry in None of the Above, an early anthology in which Dlugos appeared, he stated: "1. I try to write out of the time & space I find myself in. 2. My best work takes the 'timeless' -- spontaneous goofs, flights, body motions -- & drags it onto timeline, the 'real world' where most of us live. I am 'successful' when the language (clean combination of words) takes me or someone else back to the original combination of feelings & perceptions 'out there,' or somewhere equally nice. 3. My work is part of the nostalgia craze; all of it reminds me of where I used to be. 4. Grace, in a very orthodox sense, is my major preoccupation."
Dlugos moved to New York City in the late 1970s where he edited and contributed to such magazines as Christopher Street, New York Native and The Poetry Project Newsletter. He read everywhere and with almost everyone involved in the downtown scene. Whether writing about pop culture, New York, being gay, alcoholism or AIDS, content always came secondary to style in Dlugos' poetry. His poetry was published widely in various journals including BOMB magazine, The Paris Review and the Washington Review.
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November 2013 marked the 7th anniversary since I opened my first journal, in 2006 on LJ, and the 5th anniversary of the Rainbow Awards. 190 authors, all of them in the 2013 Rainbow Awards, donated or an ebook, or a print book, and we used them for a Treasure Hunt. Every day, for all November, I posted 6 excerpts (a random page of the book). No reference to title, or author, or publisher. People had to match it with the book. So now it's time to announce who is the winner of the Treasure Hunt... qaf22 on LJ! 174 right matchings out of 190 excerpts, really GOOD achievement. But since this is a game, and I'm sure the authors wanted for everyone to have at lease a prize, I drew the prizes among all people who tried at least once and managed a correct matching, of course giving more prizes to whom guessed better, so in the end, here is the list of winners (with the number of prizes they will receive):
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Lost and Found by Z.A. Maxfield 
