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Michael Wasson

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Michael Wasson is the author of This American Ghost (YesYes Books, 2017). The recipient of a 2018 NACF National Artist Fellowship in Literature and the 2017 Adrienne Rich Award, his poems appear in American Poets, Beloit Poetry Journal, Kenyon Review, Narrative, Poetry Northwest, and Best New Poets. He is nimíipuu from the Nez Perce Reservation in Idaho.

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