Walter Bargen
Walter Bargen has published twelve books of poetry and two chapbooks of poetry. His four most recent books are, The Feast (BkMk Press-UMKC, 2004), which was awarded the 2005 William Rockhill Nelson Award, Remedies for Vertigo (WordTech Communications, 2006), West of West (Timberline Press, 2007), and Theban Traffic (WordTech Communications, 2008). His poems have appeared recently in the Beloit Poetry Journal, Poetry East, Seattle Review, and New Letters. He was the winner of the Chester H. Jones Foundation prize in 1997 and a National Endowment for the Art Fellowship in 1991. In 2008, he was appointed to be the first poet laureate of Missouri. www.walterbargen.com
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