Do you know an American writer Edgar Lee Masters?
I read his Spoon River poem in translation.
is a collection of short free verse poems that collectively narrates the epitaphs of the residents of Spoon River, a fictional small town
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spoon_River_Anthology
Spoon River Anthology
Spoon River Anthology (1915), by Edgar Lee Masters, is a collection of short free verse poems that collectively narrates the epitaphs of the residents of Spoon River, a fictional small town named after the Spoon River, which ran near Masters' home town of Lewistown, Illinois. The aim of the poems is to demystify rural and small town American life. The collection includes 212 separate characters, in all providing 244 accounts of their lives, losses, and manner of death. Many of the poems contain cross-references that create an unabashed tapestry of the community.
No, I'm not familiar. It sounds very interesting. Hoquiam is worthy of a series of poems; we certainly have characters!