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Joseph Fasano is a poet, novelist, and songwriter.  His books include The Last Song of the World (2024), The Swallows of Lunetto (2022), The Dark Heart of Every Wild Thing (2020), The Crossing (2018), Vincent (2015), Inheritance (2014), and Fugue for Other Hands (2013).  His honors include the Cider Press Review Book Award, the Rattle Poetry Prize, eight Pushcart Prize nominations, and a nomination for the Poets’ Prize, “awarded annually for the best book of verse published by a living American poet two years prior to the award year.”  His book The Magic Words (TarcherPerigee, 2024), a collection of poetry prompts and exercises, helps people of all ages unlock their creativity.  His writing has been widely translated and anthologized, most recently in The Forward Book of Poetry 2022 (Faber and Faber).

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