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  <name><![CDATA[Gary L. McDowell]]></name>
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  <about><![CDATA[I live in Kalamazoo, MI with my wife, Mandy, and our baby boy, Auden. I'm a Creative Writing Instructor and Ph.D. student at Western Michigan University. I have a BA in English from Northern Illinois University and an MFA in Poetry from Bowling Green State University.  

This fall (2009), Cooper Dillon Books will be releasing my second chapbook, &lt;i&gt;They Speak of Fruit&lt;/i&gt;.  In the spring of 2010, Rose Metal Press will publish an anthology of personal essays and accompanying prose poems I coedited with F. Daniel Rzicznek titled, &quot;The Rose Metal Press Field Guide to Prose Poetry: Contemporary Poets in Discussion and Practice.&quot; Poems have appeared or are forthcoming in &lt;i&gt;New England Review&lt;/i&gt;, &lt;i&gt;Quarterly West&lt;/i&gt;, &lt;i&gt;Indiana Review&lt;/i&gt;, &lt;i&gt;Salt Hill&lt;/i&gt;, &lt;i&gt;Colorado Review&lt;/i&gt;, &lt;i&gt;Poetry Daily&lt;/i&gt;, &lt;i&gt;Parthenon West Review&lt;/i&gt;, &lt;i&gt;Gargoyle&lt;/i&gt;, &lt;i&gt;Night Train&lt;/i&gt;, &lt;i&gt;Grist: The Journal for Writers&lt;/i&gt;, &lt;i&gt;Controlled Burn&lt;/i&gt;, &lt;i&gt;The Southeast Review&lt;/i&gt;, &lt;i&gt;Ninth Letter&lt;/i&gt;, &lt;i&gt;DIAGRAM&lt;/i&gt;, &lt;i&gt;Bat City Review&lt;/i&gt;, &lt;i&gt;RHINO&lt;/i&gt;, &lt;i&gt;The Pinch&lt;/i&gt;, &lt;i&gt;Redactions&lt;/i&gt;, &lt;i&gt;Copper Nickel&lt;/i&gt;, &lt;i&gt;No Tell Motel&lt;/i&gt;, &lt;i&gt;Bateau&lt;/i&gt;, &lt;i&gt;In Posse Review&lt;/i&gt;, &lt;i&gt;Caffeine Destiny&lt;/i&gt;, &lt;i&gt;The Yalobusha Review&lt;/i&gt;, &lt;i&gt;The Eleventh Muse&lt;/i&gt;, &lt;i&gt;Memorious&lt;/i&gt;, &lt;i&gt;Barn Owl Review&lt;/i&gt;, &lt;i&gt;Anti-&lt;/i&gt;, and others. I also have work in &lt;i&gt;The Bedside Guide to No Tell Motel, 2nd Floor&lt;/i&gt; (No Tell Books, 2007) and forthcoming in &lt;i&gt;New Pony: A Horse Less Anthology&lt;/i&gt; (horseless press, 2009).   My first chapbook, &lt;i&gt;The Blueprint&lt;/i&gt;, appeared in 2005 from Pudding House Press.  I've been nominated for the Pushcart Prize numerous times and regularly write book reviews for &lt;i&gt;Mid-American Review&lt;/i&gt; and &lt;i&gt;Third Coast&lt;/i&gt;.

Enough about me.  Gosh.]]></about>  <influences><![CDATA[Rilke, William Faulkner, Amy Newman, Larissa Szporluk, James Joyce, Peter Gizzi, Theodore Roethke, David Bottoms, Linda Gregerson]]></influences>    <hometown>Maywood, IL</hometown>  <born_at>02/24/1980</born_at>    
  
  
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  <title><![CDATA[The Rose Metal Press Field Guide to Prose Poetry: Contemporary Poets in Discussion and Practice]]></title>
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  <title><![CDATA[The Blueprint]]></title>
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  <title><![CDATA[Lincoln's Legacy of Leadership]]></title>
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