JOSHUA MEHIGAN
is a poet born in 1969. His first book, The
Optimist (Ohio Univ. Press, 2004), was one of five finalists
for a 2005 Los Angeles Times Book Prize and winner of the Hollis
Summers Poetry Prize. His poems have appeared in many periodicals, including
The
New York Times, Parnassus,
Ploughshares,
and Poetry.
He has been a visiting writer at University of Southern Maine and Centre
College, and in October 2008 will teach a seminar/workshop
on political poetry at the 92nd Street Y. He lives in Brooklyn, New
York, with his wife, Talia.
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