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 then he has had more than 1,000 poems published in numerous poetry and general magazines of America and Great Britain, and has been included in 30 anthologies. He is a member of the Poetry Society of Great Britain.

Dean Collins—without exact date, but in the late 80's—was born in Dallas. His father was a pioneer of 1846, his mother of 1853. He began writing verses at the age of five "and regrets to say that some of them have been preserved, but he will never tell where or by whom." After graduating from the Dallas public schools he took an A.B. and an A.M. at Dallas College—which folded up a few years later. He took another A.B. and another A.M. at the University of Oregon in 1910 and 1911, after an interlude of two years as editor of the Polk County Observer, where he began writing newspaper verse. At the University of Oregon he was editor of the Oregon Monthly, to which he contributed a college story, "The Revival of Learning", which is still remembered by many alumni. He left Eugene in 1911 to become a reporter on the Oregonian, and soon after wards began a column in that paper called "Gleams Through the Mist", in which Nescius Nitts of Punkindorf Station frequently appeared. In 1917 he took up motion picture publicity but returned to newspaper work in 1919 as columnist on the Portland Telegram. For a year he was a publicity man at Hollywood, but came back to