About Steve Gehrke

Steve Gehrke’s third book, Michelangelo’s Seizure, was selected for the National Poetry Series and is forthcoming from University of Illinois Press. His second book, The Pyramids of Malpighi (Anhinga, 2004), won the Philip Levine Prize. His other awards include a grant from the NEA and a Pushcart Prize.

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after Goya

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