March 12, 2010. Mona van Duyn was born in 1921 in Waterloo, Iowa, and died in 2004. Between 1974 and 1978 she and her husband edited \”Perspective: A Quarterly of Literature.\” She served as Poet Laureate of the United States from 1992-1993. Letters from a Father 4 Almost called you on the telephone but it costs so much to call thought better write. Say, the funniest thing is happening, one day we…