Alden Nowlan / The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner

September 26, 2026

The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner is a short ironic modern poem by Alden Nowlan. This poem is simply an experience of the feelings a poet had while writing it. The feelings that the...

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Alden Nowlan | Biography

By Roma Shrestha -

September 26, 2026

Alden Nowlan was born in Windsor, Nova Scotia, Canada in 1933. He served as news editor of The Observer and The Telegraph Journal. Since 1968 he has been writer-in residence at the University of New...

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