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Mark Apel

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J.D. Salinger, Billy Collins, Walt Whitman, Haruki Murakami

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Mark Apel is a poet and fiction writer and lives with his wife, daughter, and small dog in Texas. Visit mdapel.com to read Mark's blog, join his mailing list, and to buy his books.

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	Dream Receipts 4.93 avg rating — 15 ratings — published 2024 — 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
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I am excited to announce that I have a new book of poems releasing November 12 titled Peach Creek. There was a moment in the last few years that after looking over some of my work I said, "I write a lot about bugs. And birds. And other various animals."

Enter Peach Creek. This book recalls the bugs, birds, bats, and babbles of my local, boyhood stream. Peach Creek is an unreliab

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