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- ↑ The Los Angeles Review of Books Author Page for Kyle Boelte Archived 2015-05-27 at the Wayback Machine
- 1 2 'The Beautiful Unseen,’ by Kyle Boelte, San Francisco Chronicle, 2/11/2015
- ↑ Fog Chaser, The Los Angeles Review of Books, 2/09/2015
- ↑ Booklist Review, Booklist Online, 2/01/2015
- ↑ How Nature Teaches Us to Grieve, Sierra, January/February 2015
- ↑ Reluctant Citizens, Zyzzyva, Volume 31, #1, Spring 2015
- ↑ Half-Blind Valley, High Country News, 2/02/2015
- ↑ Tie Your Own Rope, Full Stop, 1/13/2015
- ↑ Announcing 2013 Contest Winners Archived 2014-11-11 at the Wayback Machine , Bellingham Review, 6/07/2015
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