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- ↑ "Andrew-Joron - Department of Creative Writing - College of Liberal & Creative Arts - San Francisco State University". Archived from the original on 2014-08-03. Retrieved 2014-05-29.
- ↑ University of Arizona Poetry Center, Words Through: a Tribute to Gustaf Sobin Archived 2010-02-17 at the Wayback Machine On the occasion of the publication of Sobin's Collected Poems by Talisman House in 2010. The tribute took place on March 6, 2010 and featured, along with Joron and Zawacki, other writers and artists
