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David Woo's first collection of poetry The Eclipses (BOA, 2005) was selected by Michael S. Harper as the winner of the A. Poulin, Jr. Poetry Prize. Woo’s work has been widely published and anthologized in publications such as the New Yorker, Southwest Review, and The Open Boat: Poems from Asian America (1993).For more information about David Woo, visit www.david-woo.com.

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