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Kendall A. Bell is a Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net nominated poet from New Jersey. Kendall is the author of five full length collections, "The Roads Don't Love You" (2018), "the forced hush of quiet" (2019), "the shallows" (2022), "all of this bruising" (2024), "all i have in my hands" (2025), and 38 chapbooks, the latest being "wherever you are", from Crying Heart Press. Kendall is the publisher/editor of Maverick Duck Press and editor and founder of Chantarelle's Notebook. ...more

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	Turnpike North 3.90 avg rating — 10 ratings — published 2008 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Blair's Echo it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 7 ratings — published 2013	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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