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Ja'net Danielo is the author of Eclipse (JackLeg Press, 2027) and the chapbooks This Body I Have Tried to Write, winner of the MAYDAY 2022 Poetry Micro Chapbook Editors' Choice Award, and The Song of Our Disappearing (2021), a winner of the Paper Nautilus Debut Series Chapbook Contest. She has been awarded grants from the de Groot Foundation and the Arts Council for Long Beach and has been a winner of the River Heron Editors' Prize and the Fischer Prize, an honorable mention for the Tom Howard Prize, and a finalist for the Jake Adam York Prize, the Brittingham and Felix Pollak Prizes in Poetry, the James Hearst Poetry Prize, and the Lascaux Prize in Poetry. Her poems have appeared in The Journal, North American Review, swamp pink, and Diode ...more

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Careless People: A Cautionary Tale of Power, Greed, and Lost Idealism

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