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Obama's Inaugural Poet
Poetry Education Ambassador
Bryan Doerries
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Translator of Ancient Greek
Mark Doty
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National Book Award
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Josh Fox
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LennonOno Peace Award
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Adam Gopnik
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New Yorker Staff Writer
Sara Gruen
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US Poet Laureate (2015-17)
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Podcast Host: Poetry Unbound
Katha Pollitt
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Claudia Rankine
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NBCCA & Forward Prize
George Saunders
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Booker Prize Winner
Nafissa Thompson-Spires
Award-winning Fiction Author
Natasha Trethewey
US Poet Laureate (2012-2014)
Pulitzer Prize-winning Poet
Lidia Yuknavitch
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Acclaimed Memoirist