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Joseph Bathanti Author & Editor

Joseph Bathanti is poet laureate of North Carolina and professor of Creative Writing at Appalachian State University. He is author of seven books of poetry, two novels, and a collection of stories. Half of What I Say is Meaningless, winner of the 2012 Will D. Campbell Award for Creative Nonfiction, is forthcoming from Mercer University Press.