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Mark Cugini

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Mark Cugini is the author of I'M JUST HAPPY TO BE HERE (2014, Ink Press). His work has appeared in in PEN America, Melville House, Hobart, The Lifted Brow, Barrelhouse, and other publications. He’s a founding editor of Big Lucks & a co-organizer of Whale Prom, an alternative AWP bookfair. In 2013, he was named one of the Top 200 Advocates of American Poetry by The Huffington Post. He writes reviews of chapbooks at Buttercrun.ch ...more

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Published on June 21, 2013 13:10
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I'M JUST HAPPY TO BE HERE

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