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Jill McDonough: Habeas Corpus

Jill McDonough: Habeas Corpus

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DATE : Wed, 08 Jul 2009 15:24:00 -0400
Entered in Database : 2009-07-08 19:24:00
length : 18379840
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Jill McDonough reads from her first book, Habeas Corpus, which includes fifty sonnets, each about a historical execution, including those of Mary Dyer, Mary Surratt, and Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti. Jill McDonough has taught incarcerated college students through Boston University's Prison Education Program since 1999. Her poems have appeared in The Threepenny Review, The New Republic, and Slate. The recipient of fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Fine Arts Work Center, and the Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers, she is currently a Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford university. She received a Mary C. Mooney Fellowship from the Boston Athenaeum.

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