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September 18, 2008

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...I am writing this in the Method Tea House, located in Atlanta; I’ll be reading at Emory later tonight as part of Bruce Covey’s What’s New in Poetry Series. I am trying to ignore the fact that the guy behind the counter is reading my book...
Posted by Sandra at 1:09 PM

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newzoopoet said...

Now you march right up there, young lady, and say, "Damn, you have good taste!" :)

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Sandra
Washington, D.C.
My second collection, I Was the Jukebox, won the 2009 Barnard Women Poets Prize and was published by W.W. Norton in 2010. My first collection, Theories of Falling, won the 2007 New Issues Poetry Prize. My most recent book is Don't Kill the Birthday Girl: Tales From an Allergic Life (Crown, 2011), a memoir and cultural history of food allergy. My prose has also appeared in Psychology Today, The Oxford American, and the Washington Post Magazine. www.sandrabeasley.com
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