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by Christopher Childers

winner of the 21st Anthony Hecht Poetry Prize

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You’re Invited to the First Waywiser Books Fall Showcase!
You’re Invited to the First Waywiser Books Fall Showcase!

We’re thrilled to invite you to our first-ever Fall Showcase, a 60-minute virtual event that highlights our award winners and programs! Register for our event at waywiserbooks.org/fall-showcase.

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TO WILDNESS has been longlisted for the Massachusetts Book Awards
TO WILDNESS has been longlisted for the Massachusetts Book Awards

Congratulations to Julia Thacker and her book TO WILDNESS, winner of the 19th Anthony Hecht Poetry Prize! Her poetry collection has been longlisted for the Massachusetts Book Awards.

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Podcast Tour for Might Could
Podcast Tour for Might Could

This summer, Anna Lena Phillips Bell, author of Might Could, visited two podcasts: THE ARTWIFE and Drunk as a Poet on Payday. Check out what she had to say!

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