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Ron Slate was born in Quincy, Massachusetts. He earned his Masters degree in creative writing from Stanford University and studied American literature at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. He edited a poetry magazine, The Chowder Review, for 15 years. From 1994-2001, he was vice president of global communications for EMC Corporation, then was chief operating officer of a biotech/life sciences start-up. He is currently a board member of the Massachusetts Foundation for the Humanities (“Mass Humanities”), a member of the National Book Critics Circle, and a judge for the 2019 PEN America Translation Prize. He lives in Milton and Aquinnah, Massachusett

The Incentive of the Maggot, his first book of poems, was published by Houghton Mifflin. Th
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About the House

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The Great Wave

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IOU: New Writing on Money

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“We waited on the plaza
while the band wondered what to play
at a time like this—something
to console or wake the world,
or simply to please themselves.”
Ron Slate, The Great Wave

“I was a fallow field ruined by brackish flood,

but I would choose the wave over the wind,
I would swamp your world with wreckage,
I would hold fast to you, and you would be saved.”
Ron Slate, The Great Wave



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