February 27, 1906 [Roxbury, Massachusetts] – December 16, 1970 [Durango, Colorado]
Broomell was born in Roxbury, Suffolk County, Massachusetts. He studied at the University of Colorado, Boulder, graduating in 1927. In 1928 he married Jeanne CoBourn Root in Alameda, California. His poems appeared frequently in Poetry (Chicago) starting in 1930. He taught in Urbana, Ohio in the early-40s before moving to L.A. in 1944. Though he moved back to Colorado in 1949, he published frequently in L.A.-based poetry journals Variegation: A Free Verse Quarterly, and Recurrence: A Quarterly of Rhyme. The Time By Dialing appeared in 1947; the chapbook “City Built on Sand” followed a year later.
