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Poet Bio: Tim Duffy is a poet, scholar, and teacher working in Connecticut and New York City. He holds a PhD in English Literature from the University of Virginia and teaches in the Comparative Literature department at New York University. His scholarly work has appeared in several journals and he is at work on an edited collection on Geography and the Renaissance epic as well as a study of anti-worldliness, geography, and devotion in the European Renaissance lyric. His poems have appeared in The Cortland Review, Bop Dead City, Open Letters Monthly, Entropy, and elsewhere. He lives in Connecticut with his wife, children, several fish, and the occasional houseplant.

Author Statement: My goals for this project include exploring the boundaries between personal and historical memory. I want to continue writing poems based in unexpected or distant historical source material but, given the timing of this project, I want to pay special attention to the seasonal energy of summer in the age of Trump and the Anthropocene. It's a time when folks sweat, work, worry, rest, eat, play, travel, and struggle under the pressures of ideas of what a summer should be, and I want to track that as well.

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