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Seth AbramsonSETH ABRAMSON is the author of three poetry collections, most recently Thievery (University of Akron Press, 2013), winner of the 2012 Akron Poetry Prize. A doctoral candidate in English Literature at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, he is also Series Co-Editor for Best American Experimental Writing (Omnidawn, 2014) and a contemporary poetry reviewer for The Huffington Post.
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