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Marvin Bell, author of seventeen books of poetry and essays, has been called “a maverick” and “an insider who thinks like an outsider.” His literary honors include awards from the Academy of American Poets, the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the Guggenheim Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts. He is a longtime member of the faculty of the Writers’ Workshop at the University of Iowa, where he is Flannery O’Connor Professor of Letters. Bell’s latest book is
Nightworks: Poems 1962-2000. Bell lives in Iowa City, Iowa, where he now teaches one semester a year; Sag Harbor, New York; and Port Townsend, Washington. In the year 2000, the State of Iowa named him its first Poet Laureate.
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