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Laurie Kutchins’ latest book of poems, Slope of the Child Everlasting , was published by BOA in May 2007. Her debut poetry collection, The Night Path (BOA 1997), received the inaugural Isabella Gardner Award and was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize in Poetry. Her poems and prose essays have been widely published in anthologies and periodicals. Kutchins directs the interdisciplinary Creative Writing Program at James Madison University and regularly teaches as a faculty member at the Jackson Hole Writers Conference and the Taos Summer Writers Conference.

Books by Laurie Kutchins

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Lucille Clifton

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Boa Classic Book Bundle

With this one-time purchase you will receive a box of 5 best-selling titles from Boa with a few extra goodies from the publisher at…

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Subscribe and save on all forthcoming Boa titles within the calendar year! At the start of each season (every 6 months), subscribers will receive…

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To Assume a Pleasing Shape

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Bone Symphony

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After-Images: Autobiographical Sketches

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To Get Here

In To Get Here, Wendy Mnookin takes us into a family transformed by the unexpected–a child in danger. Using shifting chronology and different voices,…

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Beings and Things on Their Own

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A Matter of Blue

Translated from the French with an Introduction by Dawn Cornelio, A Matter of Blue has gone through multiple French printings and is noted poet,…

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