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After Douglas Smith and George Looney graduated from Bowling Green State University with their MFA degrees, Douglas' in fiction and George's in poetry, they never lived in the same city again. They visited one another when they could, met at AWP Conferences when both could get funding from the educational institutions they were working at, and they spent time over two different summers in Austin, Texas researching the William Goyen special issue of Mid-American Review. And they sent letters back and forth through the US mail. These poems started out as those letters. At some point they decided to work with a particular series of those letters, to hone them into poems, and to create this chapbook of corresponding poems. Sadly, Douglas did not live to see it in print.
Douglas Smith
Douglas Smith is a descendant of the Mirning and Kokatha peoples. He is an award-winning journalist who started his career at The Advertiser in 2014 before moving to Sydney in 2018 to work for SBS and NITV as a video journalist. He has been both Queensland and South Australian correspondent for NITV, and now covers Indigenous affairs for The Advertiser.
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George Looney
George Looney is the author of many books including Structures the Wind Sings Through, Monks Beginning to Waltz, and A Short Bestiary of Love and Madness. He founded the BFA in Creative Writing Program at Penn State Erie, and he serves as editor-in-chief of the international literary journal, Lake Effect. He is translation editor of Mid-American Review and a cofounder of the Chautauqua Writers' Festival.
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