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Kit Austin, Poet
Austin's street address is 814 N. Dodge Street, Iowa City IA 52245; her e.mail address is caroline-austin@uiowa; and her
phone number, (319) 337-6124.
She has had work published in 100 Words and River King Poetry Supplement.
Among the contemporary poets important to Austin are James Merrill, Frank Bidart, Gary Soto and Cynthia Macdonald; among those of the past she considers important are Whitman, Dickinson, Keats, Stevens, Shakespeare, Eliot, Rilke, Cendrars, Yeats, Hardy. Edmund Wilson is the one critic she names as important
to her.
She welcomes any feedback about her poetry. For a sample of it,
click here.
For Matthea F. Harvey's "Frederick Courteney Selous's Letters To His Love," a favorite poem of Austin's by someone else, click here.
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