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Alison Powell is a poet, lyric essayist, and scholar. Her second collection of poetry, Boats in the Attic, won the Poets Out Loud Editor’s Prize and is forthcoming from Fordham University Press; she is also the author of The Art of Perpetuation (Black Lawrence Press, 2020) and On the Desire to Levitate (Ohio University Press, 2014). Powell is Associate Professor of English and Creative Writing at Oakland University and lives with her husband, son, and daughter in metro Detroit.