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Summer 2004 • Vol. XXVI No. 3 • Nonfiction |

On and off the Grid: Syntax, Part II

By Ellen Bryant Voigt

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Ellen Bryant Voigt’s eighth volume of poetry, Headwaters, was published in 2013. “Rubato” appeared in Messenger: New and Selected Poems 1976-2006, which was a finalist for both the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award. She has also published The Flexible Lyric, a collection of essays on craft, and The Art of Syntax: Rhythm of Thought, Rhythm of Song, and teaches in the Warren Wilson MFA Program for Writers.

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