Life of Love

Ronald Douglas Bascombe isa poet/writer who has been writing andperforming his poetry for more than fortyyears. Born in Harlem, New York, Bascombedeveloped his early writing skill at HarlemsCountee Cullen Public Library in a workshopled by writer and scholar Sonia Sanchez. Heperformed with the Cosmos Nucleus poetryperformance group and served as journalist/editor-in-chief of the Sunday Morning Christian newspaper in New YorkCity. He won fi rst prize in poetry in the 1976 National Ossie Davis/RubyDee Write-On Competition sponsored by the National Black Networkand has performed his childrens poetry in schools and libraries throughoutthe New York Metropolitan area. Listed with Poets and Writers, Ronspoetry recently has been included in The Great American Poetry Show,Vl.1 and his letters to the editor and poetry have been published regularlyin local newspapers. Bascombe was named the New Jersey Departmentof Labor and Workforce Developments 2011 James A. Ware Award forExcellence. He has been published under his own name as well as underJayne Lyn Smythe and Oronde Lasana.