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JACQUELINE BERGER'S new book of poems is “Left at the Ruin.” Mark Wunderlich says “This is a book that understands poetic power lies in ambiguity and not in moral certainty, and shows us the unique power of poetic language to help us understand ourselves” Her previous collections include “The Day You Miss Your Exit; The Gift That Arrives Broken,” winner of the Autumn House Poetry Prize; “Things That Burn,” winner of the Agha Shadid Ali Poetry Prize, and “The Mythologies of Danger,” winner of the Bluestem Award and the Bay Area Book Reviewers Award (now the Northern California Book Awards). Her poetry has appeared in several anthologies including “American Poetry: The Next Generation.” Her work has appeared in “Old Dominion Review,” “Rhino,” “River Styx,” “Nimrod,” “The Iowa Review,” and elsewhere. Poet, travel writer, novelist and editor LINDA WATANABE MCFERRIN'S new book of poems is “Post Apocalyptic-Valentine.” Cole Swensen says “...these are poems that listen even more loudly than they speak, and that generosity gives this collection its distinctively heart-felt edge—it’s a tour de force of compassion.” Linda Watanabe McFerrin’s previous collections include “Dead Love,” a novel, which won the Katherine Anne Porter Prize for Fiction; “The Hand of Buddha,” a short story collection; and “Navigating the Divide: Selected Poetry and Prose.” She co-edited “Hot Flashes, the sexy little stories & poems series.” McFerrin has judged the San Francisco Literary Awards, the Josephine Miles Award for Literary Excellence, and the Kiriyama Prize, served as a visiting mentor for the Loft Mentor Series. Founder of Left Coast Writers, she has led workshops around the world and the United States.
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