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Angela Dorenkamp

Angela Dorenkamp (1929-2013) was a long-time member of the Worcester County Poetry Association and one of the founders of the Worcester Ramble, which celebrates James Joyce’s Ulysses on Bloomsday.

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Read her account of Inscribing the Stone: Notes from Worcester’s Hope Cemetery.

Laura Menides, Angela Dorenkamp and Carle Johnson at the unveiling of engraved Elizabeth Bishop headstone at Hope Cemetery, 1996.
Laura Menides, Angela Dorenkamp and Carle Johnson at the unveiling of engraved Elizabeth Bishop headstone at Hope Cemetery, 1996.
Angela joined the crowd at reading in Hope Cemetery on the anniversary of the death of Elizabeth Bishop.
Angela was one of the founders of the Worcester Ramble celebrating James Joyce’s Ulysses. The Ramblers are shown here at Jewish Healthcare Center following a rousing reading of the Aeolus chapter on June 16, 2011.
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