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 is out this month, and Conway will be reading this Friday at 7pm at 

. The collection deals primarily with the aftermath of death, and what those of us left behind must face.

, was short-listed for the 2007 PEN/Joyce Osterweil Award for Poetry.  His work has appeared in The Paris Review, American Poetry Review, Ploughshares, Gettysburg Review, Bomb, The Walrus and elsewhere.  Conway directs the Literary Arts Institute at the College of Saint Benedict.

Here's a poem from Conway's new collection:

Tarot Card of the Dreaming Man, Face Down 

like a mooch, like a goddamn moron and you

I, like a mooch, like a goddamn moron, live.

- "Tarot Card of the Dreaming Man, Face Down" by Mark Conway, as it appears in his new collection 

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Mark Conway's new collection of poetry wrestles with death and what remains in its wake.

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