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Edmond Chibeau looks at performance and theatre from the avant-garde communication perspective

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Thursday, August 23, 2018

Doug Anderson @Julia de Burgos Park

Doug Anderson 
Is a poet, a fiction writer, a photographer, a teacher. 
And,
 “I’ll be damned if all those things aren’t moving around in one another’s magnetic fields, some kind of counterpoint that happens each time [s]he breathes.” Each time he picks up a pen, each time he reads in Julia de Burgos Park, at Poet’s Corner in Willimantic Connecticut.

Doug Anderson’s books include but are not limited to -
 “Keep Your  Head Down: Vietnam, the Sixties, and a Journey of Self-Discover.”  It is published by W.W.Norton; “Blues for Unemployed Secret Police”, published by Curbstone, before it became an impress of Northwestern University Press. “The Moon Reflected Fire,” published by Alice James Books; It wonthe Kate Tufts Discovery Award in 1994.

His most recent book is “Horse Medicine,” published by Barrow Street Press in 2015.  

Some of his other awards include a grant from the Eric Mathieu King Fund of the Academy of American Poets, a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, and a Pushcart Prize. 
Anderson served as a Combat Medical Corpsman in the Marine Corp in Vietnam and has taught at the University of Connecticut, Eastern Connecticut University, and at William Joiner Center for the Study of War and Its Social Consequences at the University of Massachusetts, Boston.     People who read POETRY magazine will find his work in the April 2017 issue.