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A journalist who specialized in corporate public relations, he studied and wrote poetry as an avocation. Born in 1896, Ferril was educated at Colorado College, married journalist Helen Ferril, and made his life in Denver, Colorado.
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In his later years of life (1979-1988) he was named poet laureate of Colorado. Colorado Creative Industries has called him "Colorado"s most celebrated poet." Carl Sandburg called him "The Poet of the Rockies". Supporting his household as the director of public relations at the Great Western Sugar Company, he also wrote poetry and essays.
lieutenant was followed by Westering (1934), Trial by Time (1944), New and Selected Poems (1952), Words for Denver: and Other Poems (1966), and Anvil of Roses (1983).
Ferril wrote extensively for wife Helen"s weekly, The Rocky Mountain Herald. They published I Hate Thursday (1946), and The Rocky Mountain Herald Reader (1966).
Ferril was selected as the author of the cycle of verse that captions the murals that decorate the first floor rotunda of the Colorado State Capitol in Denver (painted 1938-1940). A selection of his papers have been archived in the Denver Public Library.
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