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Keynote Poetry Series with Shawn Aveningo

Presented by Time Tested Books at Time Tested Books

May 23, 2013

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Shawn Aveningo is an award-winning poet whose work has appeared in dozens of publications including Pirene’s Fountain; Tincture Journal; Poetry Now; Featherlit; Convergence; Survivor’s Review; POETZ; Cliterature; WTF; Savage Melodies & Last Call Serenades; The Oddity; Wait a Minute, I Have to Take Off My Bra; and ...More

Keynote Poetry Series with Shawn Aveningo

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