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Joe Milford hosts amazing poets and poetry shows once a week--prepared to be astonished and amazed.

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Alan Shapiro, a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, has published ten books of poems: After the Digging (Elpenor Books, 1981), The Courtesy (University of Chicago Press, 1983), Happy Hour (University of... more
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David Lehman grew up in New York City, the son of European refugees. His father came from Furth (near Nuremburg, in Bavaria); his mother in Vienna; they met in New York City and married in 1941. After attending yeshiva (Jewish day... more
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Franz Wright, the son of poet James Wright, was born in Vienna in 1953. During his youth, his family moved to the Northwest United States, the Midwest, and northern California. Wright's most recent collections of poetry include Walking... more
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Leonard Gontarek’s books of poems include Déjà Vu Diner (Autumn House, 2006), Zen For Beginners (Green Bean Press, 2000), and Van Morrison Can’t Find His Feet (My Pretty Jane Press, 1996). His poems have appeared in The... more
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Michael Dumanis was born in the former Soviet Union and lived there until 1981, when his parents were granted political asylum in the United States. Since then, he has lived in Boston, Buffalo, Rochester, Baltimore, Iowa City, New York,... more
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Born in 1967 in Washington, DC, Matthew Zapruder is a widely published poet and translator, as well as the founder and Editor in Chief of the acclaimed poetry publishing house Verse Press (now Wave Books). His first book of poetry,... more
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Dobby Gibson’s first book of poetry, Polar, won the 2004 Beatrice Hawley Award and was a finalist for the 2006 Minnesota Book Award. He is also the author of a second collection of poetry, Skirmish. Gibson's poetry has appeared in many... more
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Christopher Bakken was born in Madison, Wisconsin in 1967. He is the author of two books of poetry: Goat Funeral, which was awarded the Helen C. Smith Memorial Prize by the Texas Institute of Letters for the best book of poetry... more
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Dustin Brookshire is a poet and activist living in Atlanta, Georgia. He's the founder and editor of Limp Wrist, an online magazine with queer sensibility. Through Limp Wrist, Dustin has started a scholarship that is open to LGBT high school juniors... more
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He is the author of several collections of poetry, most recently Gulf Music: Poems (Farrar, Straus & Giroux: 2007); Jersey Rain (2000); The Figured Wheel: New and Collected Poems 1966-1996 (1996), which received the 1997 Lenore Marshall... more
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