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    Lucy Bie­der­man

    Lucy Bie­der­man is an assis­tant pro­fes­sor of cre­ative writ­ing at Hei­del­berg Uni­ver­si­ty in Tif­fin, Ohio. Her first book, The Wal­mart Book of the Dead, won the 2017 Vine Leaves Press Vignette Award.

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    Jake Marmer
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    Celia Dropkin; Faith Jones, Jennifer Kronovet, and Samuel Solomon, trans.
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    Léon Werth; Austin Denis Johnston, trans.
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    Linda Stern Zisquit
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    Essay

    Twen­ty-one Notes on Muriel Rukey­ser’s ​‘To Be a Jew in the Twen­ti­eth Century’

    Lucy Bie­der­man
    May 3, 2019
    Interview

    An Inter­view with Jake Marmer

    by Lucy Bie­der­man I recent­ly spoke with Jake Marmer about his excel­lent new vol­ume of poet­ry, The Neigh­bor Out of Sound. We talked about form, his immi­gra­tion…
    Lucy Bie­der­man
    October 23, 2018

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