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Jason Irwin is the author of The History of Our Vagrancies (Main Street Rag, 2020), A Blister of Stars (Low Ghost Press, 2016), & Watering the Dead (Pavement Saw Press, 2008), winner of the Transcontinental Poetry Award. He is also the author of the chapbooks Where You Are (Night Ballet Press, 2014), & Some Days It's A Love Story(Slipstream Press, 2005). He grew up in Dunkirk, NY, and now lives in Pittsburgh.

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	A Blister of Stars 4.56 avg rating — 16 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Watering the Dead 4.60 avg rating — 15 ratings — published 2008 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	These Fragments I Have Shored: A Memoir 4.64 avg rating — 11 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Where You Are 4.89 avg rating — 9 ratings — published 2014	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Natural Language: Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh Sunday Poetry and Reading Series Anthology by Renee Alberts (Goodreads Author) (editor), Connie Amoroso (designing editor), Kristofer Collins (Goodreads Author) 4.50 avg rating — 8 ratings — published 2010	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Some Days It's A Love Story 4.83 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 2005 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The History of Our Vagrancies 4.80 avg rating — 5 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Emerge Literary Journal (Summer 2013) by Ariana D. Den Bleyker (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Steven Wheat (contributor), José Hernández Díaz (contributor) 3.33 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 2013	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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A fascinating and engrossing read. It only deepens my hatred of both Reagan & Trump.
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“If everyone demanded peace instead of another television set, then there'd be peace.”
― John Lennon

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“I say, beware of all enterprises that require new clothes, and not rather a new wearer of clothes. If there is not a new man, how can the new clothes be made to fit? If you have any enterprise before you, try it in your own clothes.”
― Henry David Thoreau

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“True strength lies in submission which permits one to dedicate his life, through devotion, to something beyond himself.”
― Henry Miller

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“An individual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity.”
― Martin Luther King Jr.

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