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I'm the author of two books of short stories, Mr. Agreeable and Paradise Road, as well as a book of translations, Alphabet of the World, a nonfiction study, The Stories of Raymond Carver, and a book of poems, Saint X (forthcoming). My stories, poems, translations and essays have appeared in The Paris Review, Ploughshares, The Kenyon Review, The Southern Review, American Poetry Review, Gettysburg Review, New England Review, Iowa Review, Agni, The Sun, Fiction, Witness, Prairie Schooner, among others. My short short fictions have been widely anthologized, appearing in W. W. Norton's New Sudden Fiction, Flash Fiction Forward, Sudden Fiction Latino, and elsewhere.

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Rock Bottom Restaurant (Festival of Language/AWP), Chicago, IL, February 29, 2012 (8 pm).

Telling It Slant: Measures, Meaning, and Music in Translating Poetry (with Nancy Naomi Carlson, Ilya Kaminsky, Yvette Neisser Moreno and others): Thursday, March 1 at 1:30 pm / in Wiliford B, Hilton Chicago, 3rd Floor.

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Melanie Sumner Hi Kirk. We share a lot of favorite authors. I look forward to reading your work.


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John Thanks for your friendship and your wonderful short stories.

Best,
John


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Jen Knox Thanks for the friendship, Kirk.


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