–by Aaron Crippen
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Aaron Crippen is a poet and educator. He is the translator of Nameless Flowers: Selected Poems of Gu Cheng (George Braziller, 2005), a project for which he received an NEA Literature Fellowship, and for which he received a PEN Texas Literary Award for Poetry. His poems have appeared in numerous journals, including Verse and the Beloit Poetry Journal.
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