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Spring 2006 • Vol. XXVIII No. 2 • Poetry |

Bird Crashing into Window

By Michael Collier

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Michael Collier’s sixth book, An Individual History, will be published by W.W. Norton, spring 2012. In 2009, he received an Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He teaches in the creative writing program at the University of Maryland and is director of the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference.

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