BA in literature at Brown University, and an MFA in poetry at the University of Minnesota.
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“Echo” was written while reading a collection of Paul Celan poems, including and especially the well-known poem “Death Fugue,” as translated by Michael Hamburger.
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Reader, you are here, too, keeping me company. Thank you.
And Laurion, for so much and much.
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Grateful acknowledgement to the editors of the literary journals that first published my work: Switched on Gutenberg, DMQ Review, Cha, Cant, DIAGRAM, and Blackbird.
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Much of this work was written with the support of the MFA Program of the University of Minnesota.
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Go now before the fire scalds your name
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What we cannot say with words begins to smolder.
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The cutting is not to be feared as much as the sowing.
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the woods I walked. I went alone. Though I was afraid, I pretended not to be.