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  <name><![CDATA[Jeffrey Spahr-Summers]]></name>
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  <about><![CDATA[Jeffrey (A.K.A. ZZ Baggins) started writing poetry and taking photographs over thirty years ago while living in South Africa. He is a former Chicago saloon poet. He is the founder of The Chicago Poetry Agenda and a former active board member of The Tulsa Arts and Humanities Literary Arts Council. A former member of The Greater Dallas Community of Writers, he has conducted and participated in numerous poetry workshops and feature readings in the U.S. 

His poetry, visual arts and photographs have been published around the world in numerous print and online journals, as well as five anthologies. He has published seven books of poetry: Fear of Heights (1984, Spahr-Summers Publications), The Cherry Poems (2006, Cherry Publications), i believe (2009, Internet Poets Cooperative/Cherry Publications), fifteen minutes (2009, Cherry Publications), jet streaks and power lines (2009, Cherry Publications), broke before love shack (2009, Cherry Publications) and apple (2009, Cherry Publications).

Jeff has also published one book of photographs odaroloc (2009, Cherry Publications).

Jeff is the Editor and Publisher of Poetry Victims, Bi-monthly, Jeff writes for (and publishes poetry in) Sketchbook- A Journal for Eastern and Western Short Forms(where he is a Contributing Editor). He is a featured blogger for AMP (Artist's Meeting Place) and maintains a slew of other blogs and sites online. ]]></about>  <influences><![CDATA[Tothill, Frost, Jong, Carver, Shakespeare, Forche, Ferlinghetti, Bukowski, Kerouac, Gerbig, Morrison, Neruda, Vonnegut, Irving, Thompson, Keats, Thomas, Williams, Brooks, Tolkein, The Beatles ... and all those other poets, writers and artists I've known over the years.]]></influences>  <gender>male</gender>  <hometown>Colorado Springs</hometown>  <born_at>01/26/1960</born_at>    
  
  
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  <title><![CDATA[i believe]]></title>
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  <title><![CDATA[Fear of Heights]]></title>
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  <published>1984</published>  
  
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  <title><![CDATA[The Cherry Poems]]></title>
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  <title><![CDATA[jet streaks and power lines]]></title>
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  <title><![CDATA[broke before love shack]]></title>
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  <title><![CDATA[odaroloc]]></title>
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  <title><![CDATA[fifteen minutes]]></title>
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  <title><![CDATA[Step into the Light: Poems from Recovery]]></title>
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  <published>1992</published>  
  
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  <title><![CDATA[Stray Bullets: A Celebration of Chicago Saloon Poetry]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Jeffrey Spahr-Summers]]></name>
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  <published>1991</published>  
  
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