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Brian Evans-Jones won the Maureen Egen Writers Exchange Award for poetry in 2017. He received his MFA from the University of New Hampshire in 2016 and teaches poetry and creative writing at schools, colleges, and community venues in Maine and New Hampshire. His website is www.brianevansjones.com.

You are a poet—or you think you are. Perhaps you have never been sure. After all, you don’t have the four or five books to your name that you thought you’d have by now.

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