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Alice Fulton

Alice Fulton

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Alice Fulton’s book Felt (2001) was awarded the 2002 Rebekah Johnson Bobbitt National Prize for Poetry from the Library of Congress. It was a Los Angeles Times Best Book of 2001 and a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Award. She also has been awarded MacArthur Foundation, Guggenheim, Ingram Merrill, and NEA Fellowships. Her work has been included in six editions of The Best American Poetry series, the Pushcart Prize series, and also has been adapted several times for musical and theatrical productions. Her most recent collectioin of poems is Cascade Experiment: Selected Poems (W.W. Norton, 2004). She is currently the Ann S. Bowers Professor of English at Cornell Univeristy in Ithica, New York.

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