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Matthew RohrerMatthew Rohrer is the author of 6 books of poems, most recently A Plate Of Chicken from Ugly Duckling Presse. A chapbook-length action/adventure poem They All Seemed Asleep was recently published by Octopus Books. With Joshua Beckman and Anthony McCann he wrote Gentle Reader!?a secretly published book of erasures of the Romantics. It is not for sale. He lives in Brooklyn.
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