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KAVEH AKBAR is the author of Calling a Wolf a Wolf. He teaches at Purdue University and in the low-residency M.F.A. programs at Randolph College and Warren Wilson College.

JOHN ASHBERY (1927–2017) was an American poet, critic, and translator. His last collection of poems was Commotion of the Birds.

RICK BAROT’s next collection of poems, The Galleons, will be published in 2020.

is the author of the collection , a selection for the Poetry Society of America’s New American Poets Series.

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