Great Regulars: This week's Poetry Corner features

David Swanger, the second Santa Cruz County Poet Laureate. Swanger has received fellowships in poetry from the National Endowment for the Arts and the California Arts Council. He has written a book about poetry, "The Poem as Process," a book about aesthetic education, "Essays in Aesthetic Education," as well as four books of poems. His most recent book of poems, "Wayne's College of Beauty," won the John Ciardi Prize in Poetry, and was a finalist in Fore Word's Book of the Year Awards.

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(January 1982, Santa Cruz County)

from Good Times Weekly: Poetry Corner: The Poems of David Swanger

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