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Jonathan Holden

Manhattan, Kansas

Jonathan Holden is the author of Knowing: New & Selected Poems (University of Arkansas Press, 2000) and The Names of the Rapids (The University of Massachusetts Press, 1985). His poetry has been published in former U.S. Poet Laureate Ted Kooser's column, "American Life in Poetry." Holden is the past poet laureate of Kansas and poet in residence at Kansas State University in Manhattan.

Column 161

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