Norbert Korte News Today

Poet Mary Norbert Korte left her life as a nun in the 1960s to pursue dual passions for beat poetry and the preservation of California's redwood forests. She died in November at age 88.

Mary Norbert Korte, legendary poet, teacher, environmental and political activist left her body this past Monday. She was at her home in the forest in Irmulco, where she had lived for 50 years. She was not in pain, her organs were simply failing after 88 adventurous revolutions around the sun.