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Max Garland is a poet from Eau Claire, Wisconsin and served as the Wisconsin Poet Laureate from 2013 to 2024. His work is known for its accessibility and articulation of the ordinary, quotidian experiences of Americans. A graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop, he teaches English at the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire and is the author of the poetry collections The Postal Confessions and Hunger Wide as Heaven. His poems have won the Juniper Prize for Poetry, the CSU Poetry Center Open Competition, and the Brittingham Poetry Prize.
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A lovestruck journalist and a torn painter pull the threads of their affair in opposite directions: he desires something more permanent, while she feels indebted to her husband and sons.