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Jed Rasula, Helen S. Lanier Distinguished Professor at the University of Georgia, is author of several books of poetry and critical works, including Tabula Rasula, Hot Wax, or Psyche’s Drip, and This Compost: Ecological Imperatives in American Poetry.
“What happens when everyone is a poet?” Mike Chasar and Jed Rasula discuss the demographics of American poetry.
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