Mark Perlberg:
(1929–2008) was a prominent American poet, journalist, and cultural advocate based in Chicago. He graduated from Hobart College in 1950 and served in the Korean War before launching a journalism career with Time magazine, where he covered arts and interviewed figures like Marc Chagall and Fritz Reiner. He later worked as an editor for Encyclopaedia Britannica, World Book Encyclopedia, and Prism, a journal on medical socio-economics.
We were letting go of October, relinquishing color, readying ourselves for streets lacquered with ice, the town closed like a walnut, locked inside the cold.
