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Mark Halliday
Mark Halliday teaches at Ohio University. His seventh book of poems Losers Dream On appeared in 2018 from the University of Chicago Press.

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Bleak Solace in a Poem by William Olsen

Mark Halliday
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Bidart’s Thirst

Mark Halliday

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