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Award-winning poet Ned O'Gorman, "who gained his widest attention for starting a storefront school [Children's Storefront] in Harlem--a 'liberation camp,' he called it--to bring literature, Latin and love to disadvantaged children," died Friday, the New York Times reported.He was 84. In addition to a memoir, The Other Side of Loneliness, his books included six poetry collections. The Night of the Hammer won a Lamont Poetry Prize from the Academy of American Poets in 1958.
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