December 9th, 2010 / 1:26 am
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Dean Young’s Heart Transplant Fund

From a letter by Tony Hoagland at the National Foundation for Transplants

Dear Friends,

If you are reading this, you are probably a friend of Dean Young and/or a friend of poetry. And you may have heard that our friend is in a precarious position. Dean needs a heart transplant now. He also needs your assistance now.

Over the past 10 or 15 years, Dean has lived with a degenerative heart condition–congestive heart failure due to idiopathic hypotropic cardiomyopathy. After periods of more-or-less remission, in which his heart was stabilized and improved with the help of medications, the function of his heart has worsened. Now, radically.

Donations can be made here (be sure to make the gift in honor of Dean Young), or via an address at the bottom of the link above.

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11 Comments

  1. December 9th, 2010 / 5:55 am Amelia—

      Oh no, I hadn’t heard about this. Gave what I could & passing it on

  2. December 9th, 2010 / 2:14 am Please Contribute: Dean Young Transplant Fund « Bat Terrier—

      […] needs a heart transplant. If you’d like to contribute to the transplant fund, see the link.                             […]

  3. December 9th, 2010 / 7:06 am James Yeh—

      I did likewise. Sad.

  4. December 9th, 2010 / 1:31 pm Gallagher—

      Me too.

  5. December 9th, 2010 / 2:07 pm Jamieiredell—

      Terrible. Among our best contemporary poets and a great guy. Thanks for posting about this.

  6. December 9th, 2010 / 3:54 pm Ben Mirov—

      Thanks for posting this.

  7. December 9th, 2010 / 8:27 pm Matthew Simmons—
  8. December 9th, 2010 / 8:27 pm Matthew Simmons—
  9. December 11th, 2010 / 4:20 pm Prose/Paragraph—

      I posted this on my blog in hopes people donate. Dean Young taught me how to write better lines, and I’ll be forever grateful.

  10. December 13th, 2010 / 7:10 pm Relaxation week: Mail day « Amelia Gray—

      […] Yesterday was a busy and good day at the bookfair. Mike Graupmann helped me set up and organize through the day. We had 15 readers go up, and met loads of cool local press people making neat items. Letterpress was involved. It was a small group of sellers but a happy one, with a steady crowd all day. It seemed like everyone had a good time, and our treat table raised a chunk of cash for Dean Young. […]

  11. December 20th, 2010 / 6:25 pm Catdoty—

      Thank you, Tony. Our hearts are with Dean.