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KEVIN CANTWELL

WHAT BOOKS PRESS TITLE:
One of Those Russian Novels

KEVIN CANTWELL has a Ph.D. in English from the University of Utah (1991). A regular reviewer of poetry collections, he edited Quarterly West magazine while in graduate school. His poems have appeared in such places as The New Republic, Poetry, Metre (UK), Commonweal, Antioch Review, and The Paris Review. One of his poems was reprinted in The Paris Review Book of Heartbreak, Madness, Sex, Love, Betrayal, Outsiders, Intoxication, War, Whimsy, Horrors, God, Dinner, Death, Baseball, Travels, the Art of Writing, and Everything Else in the World Since 1953 (Picador, 2003). At Macon State College he edits the Redbone Chapbooks series, which publishes an occasional collection by a Georgia poet who has not yet published a first book. In 2002, his book Something Black in the Green Part of Your Eye was published by New Issues Press at Western Michigan State University. His second book of poetry was published in 2009, One of Those Russian Novels. In fall of 2011, Mercer University Press published Writing on Napkins at the Sunshine Club: An Anthology of Poets Writing in Macon, which he edited and for which he wrote the Introduction. He has won the Academy of American Poets Prize; has twice won the River City Poetry Award; has won a Tennessee Williams Scholarship; has been awarded a Djerassi residency; and has won the Agnes Scott Poetry Prize. In 2012, he won the James Dickey Prize poetry prize from Five Points magazine. He is chair of the Department of Media, Culture, and the Arts at Macon State College (Georgia).

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