Slim Dewitt - Poet

 

Slim was born on August 29, 1951, in Denver, Colorado. He spent a lot of his years in Kansas, Iowa, and Nebraska. Truly he feels his core values were born and nurtured in the Midwest and he learned so much about life from his grandfather.

 

How he started writing poetry: While home sick one day, when Slim was in elementary school, he was watching Hollywood Squares on TV and was inspired by Nipsey Russell’s wit and gift for off-the-cuff poetry. Slim says, “The real trick is to write with your heart and not with your hand!” As always, Slim says about his poems, “God Writes Um, I merely hold the pen.” Slim says, “If not for God, neither I, nor my poetry would have any meaning at all.”