Broken World
Author Biography

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Joseph Lease is the author of two critically acclaimed collections of poetry: Human Rights and The Room. His work has been featured on NPR and published in The AGNI 30th Anniversary Poetry Anthology, VQR, Bay Poetics, Paris Review, and elsewhere. The title poem from Broken World appeared in The Best American Poetry, edited by Robert Creeley and David Lehman. Originally from Chicago, Lease lives in the Bay area and chairs the MFA Program in Writing at California College of the Arts in San Francisco.