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Jackson Wheeler

Oxnard, California

Jackson Wheeler is the author of A Near Country (Solo Press, 1999) and Swimming Past Iceland (Mille Grazie Press, 1993). His poetry has been published in former U.S. Poet Laureate Ted Kooser's column, "American Life in Poetry." He lives in California.

Column 144

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