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a graduate of the University of Southern Maine Stonecoast MFA Creative Writing Program, he helped to found, and currently teaches English and

has published poems, stories, plays, essays, and translations in magazines such as Poetry and The Paris Review and in anthologies such as The

(1932 – 2004) was the author of many volumes of poetry and criticism. He also translated widely from French literature, including an

co – directs the Creative Writing Program at Emporia State University, is managing editor of Flint Hills Review, and writes regularly for

grew up in Brooklyn around the corner from Ebbets Field and spent the early sixties on the Lower East Side of New York. In 1970, he opened The

will publish a new book of poems, Begin in Gladness (Star Cloud Press), this spring. Along with his translations of Raboni and Cucchi, he will

cut his teeth wailing poesy in Greenwich Village, circa 1962 – 64, at the legendary Rafio Cafe. He has dwelled in 47, not so exotic, ports

earned his MFA from Old Dominion University. His fiction and poetry has appeared or is forthcoming in The Southeast Review, Boxcar Poetry

is a poet, novelist, photographer, painter, publisher, and editor. He obtained his BA from North Central College in Naperville, Illinois in

was born in Brooklyn, New York and educated at Columbia University. He taught at a number of colleges and universities over a forty year period,

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