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    Sycamore: Poems

    By Kathy Fagan

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  • Author is incredibly active self-promoter
  • Poetry from this collection has been published in the best journals, including the Paris Review and New Republic
  • Author is ready to tour widely in support of the book
    • LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMilkweed Editions
    Release dateJul 17, 2017
    ISBN9781571319296
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    Sycamore: Poems
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    Kathy Fagan

    Kathy Fagan is the author of Bad Hobby and Sycamore, a finalist for the Kingsley Tufts Award. She is also the author of four previous collections, including The Charm; The Raft, winner of the National Poetry Series; and MOVING & ST RAGE, winner of the Vassar Miller Prize. Fagan’s work has appeared in venues such as the New York Times Sunday Magazine, Poetry, The Nation, the New Republic, Best American Poetry, and the Academy of American Poets Poem-A-Day. She has received a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship and an Ingram Merrill Foundation Fellowship, and served as the Frost Place poet in residence. Fagan is cofounder of the MFA program at The Ohio State University, where she teaches poetry, and coedits the Wheeler Poetry Prize Book Series for The Journal and The Ohio State University Press.

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