title: Years: In The Early Life Of A Poet
author: deadwriter
description: Dexter deadwriter Betantos was born on March 11, 1979 in Maramag, Bukidnon, Philippines. His love for Art started at a very young age. Drawing inspirations from his comic books, he began drawing comic book characters. It was in the year 1998 and halfway through his college taking up Architecture when he decided to look for another way to express his artistic passion other than his paintings and illustrations. What he was looking for, he found it in writing. Realizing he only needed a pen and a piece of paper, be it the back of a receipt. "In writing one doesn't need a studio", "One simply write". After college in 2001, he worked in a company exporting goods outside of the country, then later moved on to radio broadcasting and TV reporting in his hometown in 2003. In 2005 he worked as a Visual Art Tutor in Manila. The following year, 2006, he returned to Mindanao and took his educational units in Bachelor Of Science In Secondary Education. He then started a career in Secondary Education, handling subjects such as English, Basic Computer, Social Studies and Advisory for the School Paper and Art Clubs until 2009. All the while studying for his Masters Degree in Educational Management. After three years of teaching he flew to Qatar and worked for a French Interior Designing company in 2010. In 2012 he moved to Dubai. Beside from writing, he also sells his art online through a charity organization.
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  > Also by Sharon Olds
  
  
  > SATAN SAYS
  
  
  > THE GOLD CELL
  
  
  > THE FATHER
  
  
  > THE WELLSPRING
  
  
  > BLOOD, TIN, STRAW
  
  
  > THE UNSWEPT ROOM
  
  
  > STRIKE SPARKS
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  > _The Dead and the Living_ is the 1983  
  > Lamont Poetry Selection of the  
  > Academy of American Poets.
  
  
  > From 1954 through 1974 the Lamont  
  > Poetry Selection supported the  
  > publication and distribution of  
  > twenty first books of poems. Since  
  > 1975 this distinguished award has  
  > been given for an American poet’s  
  > second book.
  
  
  > Judges for 1983: June Jordan,  
  > Charles Simic, and David Wagoner
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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  THIS IS A BORZOI BOOK  
  PUBLISHED BY ALFRED A. KNOPF, INC.
  
  
  
  
  
  Copyright © 1975, 1978, 1979, 1980, 1981, 1982, 1983 by Sharon Olds
  
  
  All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright
  Conventions. Published in the United States by Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., New
  York, and simultaneously in Canada by Random House of Canada Limited, To