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Charles Harper Webb

Long Beach, California

Charles Harper Webb’s latest books are A Million MFAs Are Not Enough (2016, Red Hen Press), Brain Camp (2015, University of Pittsburgh Press), and What Things Are Made Of (2013, University of Pittsburgh Press). He earned a BA in English from Rice University, an MA in English from the University of Washington, and an MFA in professional writing and a PhD in counseling psychology from USC. He teaches at California State University, Long Beach.

Black and white headshot of poet Charles Harper Webb in front of flowers.
University of Pittsburgh

By Charles Harper Webb

Column 203

The Animals are Leaving