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Weekly Poem: 'Something Touched My Heart' by Travis Nichols

Travis Nichols reads "Something Touched My Heart," from his book, "See Me Improving."

08/22/2011

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Weekly Poem: 'Something Touched My Heart' by Travis Nichols

Clip: 8/22/2011 | 2m 9s

Travis Nichols reads "Something Touched My Heart," from his book, "See Me Improving."

Travis Nichols is an editor at the Poetry Foundation and the author of the collection of poems, "See Me Improving" (2010, Copper Canyon Press). His first book of poems, "Iowa," was published in 2009 by Letter Machine Editions, and his first novel, "Off We Go Into the Wild Blue Yonder," was published in 2010 by Coffee House Press. He runs the online journal Weird Deer.

08/22/2011

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