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Robert Dana (1929-2010) was awarded two National Endowment Fellowships (1985 and 1993), the Delmore Schwartz Memorial Award for Poetry (1989) and a Pushcart Prize (1996). His books include Hello, Stranger: Beach Poems (Anhinga Press, 1996) and A Community of Writers: Paul Engle and the Iowa Writers' Workshop (University of Iowa Press, 1999), a gathering of memoirs of the first twenty-five years of America's most famous writing program.