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Workshop Faculty and Alumni Finalists for L.A. Times Book Prize

Mars Being Red

KELLY A. SMITH
Iowa Writers' Workshop website

Three of the five books nominated for the 2007 Los Angeles Times Book Prize in Poetry were written by Workshop authors: Mars Being Red, by Marvin Bell (MFA 1969), The Kitchen Sink: New and Selected Poems, 1972-2007, by Albert Goldbarth (MFA 1971), and Old Heart: Poems, by Stanley Plumly. The winner will be announced at a ceremony in Los Angeles on April 25th.
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March 13, 2008
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