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Michael Bazzett

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Michael Bazzett’s poems have appeared in Ploughshares, The Sun, 32 Poems, Copper Nickel, and The Iowa Review. He is the author of three poetry collections: You Must Remember This (Milkweed 2014), a winner of the Lindquist & Vennum Prize for Poetry, Our Lands Are Not So Different (Horsethief 2017), and The Interrogation (Milkweed 2017)—as well as a forthcoming verse translation of the Mayan creation epic, The Popol Vuh (Milkweed). The recipient of a 2017 NEA Fellowship in Poetry, he lives in Minneapolis with his wife and two children.

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