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Poet Bio: Stephen Hollaway is the pastor of a church on Block Island, Rhode Island, an hour's ferry ride from America. He runs a coffeehouse every Friday night which sometimes features poetry; he created a drop-in center for the 200+ international students who come to work on the island in the summer and provides dinner for them twice a week. Stephen is working on a memoir about his thirteenth year in Tokyo as a child of missionaries during which his mother descended into mental illness and was hospitalized in the States. He has been writing poetry since he was a student at Princeton and Duke, and twice entered MFA programs and withdrew because of the pressures of ministry. Currently he is on a sabbatical in Santa Fe with the intention of completing a book of poems.

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