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Michael Mlekoday is the author of The Dead Eat Everything (Kent State University Press, 2014), selected by Dorianne Laux as the winner of the 2012 Stan and Tom Wick Poetry Prize. In 2009, Mlekoday won the National Poetry Slam as a member of the St. Paul team, and returned the following year to coach the team to its second championship. Mlekoday's poems have appeared in Ploughshares, Ninth Letter, The Cincinnati Review, Verse Daily, and other venues. ...more

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