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“I want to always fight for art, not against it.”
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Ben Purkert is the author of For the Love of Endings (Four Way Books, 2018). His poems appear or are forthcoming in the New Yorker, Poetry, Kenyon Review, and elsewhere. An editor at Guernica, he is the founder of Back Draft, an interview series focused on poetry and revision. He currently teaches creative writing at Rutgers.
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