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Idra Novey

Idra Novey is a poet and translator whose exuberance is as apparent on the page as it is in person. She has published two poetry collections, The Next Country, which was a finalist for the Foreward Book of the Year … Continue reading

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Mary Jo Bang

Mary Jo Bang is a poet whose formal tricks don’t imprison meaning in a cage of structure, but rather act as a funnel through which emotion and prickle-your-skin honesty gush forth with surprising velocity. In Elegy, the collection that won … Continue reading

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Crystal Williams

Crystal Williams writes poems that vibrate like tuning forks to the frequencies of contemporary social politics, personal responsibility, family, and identity. Her third and most recent collection, Troubled Tongues (Lotus Press, 2009), won the Naomi Long Madgett Poetry Prize and … Continue reading

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Josh Bell

Josh Bell is a poet, and a rare one at that— one that makes you laugh. Writing of his debut book, the collection No Planets Strike (Zoo Press/University of Nebraska Press, 2005), in the Boston Book Review, Tanya Larkin calls … Continue reading

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