Duane Ackerson (October 17, 1942 – April 19, 2020) was an

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of speculative poetry and

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. Не taught at the

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, then headed the creative program at

Idaho State University Idaho State University (ISU) is a Public university, public research university in Pocatello, Idaho, United States. Founded in 1901 as the Academy of Idaho, Idaho State offers more than 250 programs at its main campus in Pocatello and locations ...

. He lived in

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, where he died on April 19, 2020. Duane Ackerson's work has appeared in

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that include ''The Year's Best SF 1974'', ''100 Great Science Fiction Short Short Stories'', ''Future Pastimes'', and the textbook ''Writing Poetry''. He has won the

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for Best Short Poem twice, in 1978 and 1979. Ackerson's poems are translated into Russian by

Dmitry Kuzmin Dmitry Vladimirovich Kuzmin (, born December 12, 1968), is a Russian poet, critic, and publisher. Biography Kuzmin was born in Moscow, son of the architect Vladimir Legoshin and the literary critic Edwarda Kuzmina; among his grandparents were t ...

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Bibliography

* ''The Bird at the End of the Universe'' * ''The Eggplant & Other Absurdities'' * ''Weathering'' * ''UA Flight to Chicago''. Lincoln, Nebraska: The Best Cellar Press, 1971.

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