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Cal Bedient Author

Cal Bedient is the author of five books of criticism, including Eight Contemporary Poets, He Do the Police in Many Voices: The Waste Land and Its Protagonist, and The Yeats Brothers, along with five poetry collections: Candy Necklace, The Violence of the Morning, Days of Unwilling, The Multiple, and The Breathing Place. He was a founding editor of the California New Poetry Prize and is a founding coeditor of Lana Turner. His poems have been published in Agni, AmericanLetters and Commentary, Bennington Review, BOMB, Boston Review, Colorado Review, Conduit, Fence, Gulf Coast, Harvard Review, Iowa Review, Ploughshares, Poetry International, Southern Review, VOLT, and others. He lives in Santa Monica, California.