Lance Larsen (born 1961 in

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) is an American poet. He served as poet laureate of

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from 2012 to 2017. In 2007, he received the Literature Fellowship in Poetry from the

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. He has been published in American poetry journals including ''

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'', and '' JuxtaProse'' and the 2005 Pushcart Prize Anthology. His writing has been described as embodying a "quaintly romantic notion that mortality and love and soul are the abiding themes of life and art." Larsen is married to painter Jacqui Larsen.A Couple of Artists
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* ''Erasable Walls'' (1998) * ''In All Their Animal Brilliance'' (2005) * ''Backyard Alchemy'' (2009) * ''Genius Loci'' (2013) * ''What the Body Knows'' (2018)

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1961 births American male poets Brigham Young University faculty Latter Day Saint poets Latter Day Saints from Utah Poets from Utah Poets laureate of Utah University of Houston alumni Living people People from Pocatello, Idaho {{US-poet-1960s-stub

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