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Robert Dana reads selections from his tenth collection of poems entitled The Morning of the Red Admirals. Robert mentions the poets James Galvin and Donald Justice at the start of his reading. He asserts that Galvin's “most recent book just sent me off the planet,” and dedicates his reading to Donald Justice. Dana claims Justice as his “greatest adversary,” claiming that they both organize their poetry and think about writing in similar ways. During a very brief question and answer period, Dana discusses how his political opinions affect his poetry. Dana points out that most everything in our lives are touched by the political, and thus cannot be divorced from his poetry. Works Read: "The Morning of the Red Admirals", "Walking the Yellow Dog", "Ecstasy", "February", "This Time", "In Panama", "Five Card Draw", "Of Cats, Switchblades, and the Unimaginable", "In Heaven", "Stepping Lightly", "Late October Rainy Days", "Chimes"; from The Morning of the Red Admirals by Robert Dana. Live From Prairie Lights was a live public radio program broadcast from Prairie Lights, an independent bookstore in Iowa City, Iowa. The program showcased new and established writers from around the world. Contact the VWU Webmaster: https://www.writinguniversity.org MP3 mpeg layer 2 audio @ 32kbps derived from archival WAVE files

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