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Steven Cramer
's fifth collection, Clangings, will be published by Sarabande Books in 2012. Other "Clangings" have appeared or will appear in Denver Quarterly, Field, The Journal, Slate, and elsewhere. His essay, "Merwin's Evolving Protocols: On the Occasion of 'The Day Itself,'" will be included in Until Everything Is Continuous Again: American Poets on the Recent Work of W.S. Merwin. Cramer's work will also be represented in The Book of Villanelles (Everyman's Library Pocket Poets Series). He directs the Low-Residency MFA Program in Creative Writing at Lesley University in Cambridge.
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