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Mark Magoon

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Mark Magoon is an author and educator.

His publishing credentials feature works of poetry and creative nonfiction that have been nominated for Best of the Net and the Pushcart Prize. His first book of poems--The Upper Peninsula Misses You (ELJ Editions, 2015)--is very much writing of place, but the haunting tale of broken families and languishing landscapes found within could just as likely be from anywhere across America.

Magoon is a full-time faculty member in the Department of English at University of Illinois at Chicago where he teaches poetry and composition. His poetry courses explore the construction of voice in British and American poetry, strongly focusing on the relationship between form and content. His First-Year Writing compositi
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Average rating: 5.0 · 10 ratings · 5 reviews · 1 distinct work
The Upper Peninsula Misses You

it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 10 ratings — published 2015
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