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Maggie Anderson

Maggie Anderson is the author of four books of poems, most recently Windfall (University of Pittburgh, 2000). She directs the Northeast Ohio MFA in Creative Writing and the Wick Poetry Center at Kent State University, where she edits the Wick Poetry Series of the KSU Press.

Fall 2008

Beautiful War

By Maggie Anderson

March-September 2003 Photographs     painted, cropped, rearranged           into smoke     soldier     tank     desert sky red on red horizon line of dreamed landscape so that it does not look like war— wounded Marines, no blood—                                    no detonations, […]