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Austin Allen’s first poetry collection, Pleasures of the Game, was awarded the Anthony Hecht Poetry Prize and was published by The Waywiser Press in 2016. His poetry has appeared widely, and his criticism appears frequently via The Poetry Foundation. He lives and teaches in Cincinnati.

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