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Erin Rodoni’s third collection wins award
Erin Rodoni, whose first collection Body, in Good Light was published by Sixteen Rivers Press in 2017, has recently won the 2020 Southern Indiana Review Michael Waters Poetry Prize for her third manuscript. And if the Woods Carry You is forthcoming in fall 2021....
The Distant Sound featured
Eliot Schain’s 2020 collection, The Distant Sound, is featured at Katherine Hastings’s Word Temple blog (May 26, 2020).
Second Tuesday Poetry: Ulalume González de León reading on May 12
Join the Modesto-Stanislaus Poetry Center via Zoom on the second Tuesday in May to celebrate the publication of Ulalume González de León's PLAGIOS/PLAGIARISMS VOL. 1, with project translators Terry Ehret, John Johnson, and Nancy J. Morales. Poet, essayist, and...
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