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- ↑ "Jennifer Moxley - Department of English - University of Maine". Department of English. Retrieved 2022-02-25.
- ↑ "William Carlos Williams Award".
- ↑ https://www.amazon.com/American-Hybrid-Norton-Anthology-Poetry/dp/0393333752
