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- ↑ "Heriard Cimino". Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 18 April 2013.
- ↑ Dominique Nahas, "New Work of Margaret Evangeline: Achieving Punctuation" [ permanent dead link ]
- ↑ BBC News
- ↑ Malcolm Jones, "Toward a New New Orleans," Newsweek, April 26, 2008
- ↑ Linda Yablonsky, The New York Times, T Magazine, "Cottage Industry" September 26, 2008
- ↑ Absolute Arts
- ↑ Koan Jeff Baysa, "Ricochets and Tangled Trajectories," Art Slant, December 2009
- 1 2 Charta Art Books
- ↑ Margaret Evangeline: Shooting Through the Looking Glass
- ↑ Sabachtani on Amazon
