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FRANK BIDART is an American poet and academic currently teaching at Wellesley College. In 2018, he was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry.

JORGE LUIS BORGES (1899–1986) was an Argentine poet, essayist, and fiction writer.

NANCY NAOMI CARLSON is the writer of nine titles, six of which are translations.

is the author of five collections of poems. Her first book of prose, , was published this year.

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