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- ↑ Huffington Post “National Poetry Month 2013. Seth Abramson.
- ↑ Pen America “from the Waters” June 26, 2013.
- ↑ Center for Humanities: Lost & Found: The CUNY Poetrics Document Initiative Archived 2014-02-02 at the Wayback Machine
- ↑ Birds LLC. The First Four Books..
- ↑ Coldfront Mag. "The First Four Books of Sampson Starkweather."
- ↑ Huffington Post National Poetry Month.