BIO:
Julie Patton is the author of Teething on Type (Rodent Press, 1995). She has published poems in Transfer, Tribes, and other magazines, and in Aloud: Voices from the Nuyorican Poets Cafe (Collier Books, 1994). Her articles and essays appear in Educating the Imagination: Essays & Ideas for Teachers & Writers (T&W, 1994), and in Teachers & Writers. In 1993 she received the New York City Arts in Education Sustained Achievement Award in Literary Arts. She has performed her work at the New York Shakespeare Festival, the Nuyorican Poets' Cafe, the Whitney Museum, Houston's Center for Art and Performance, and Cleveland Public Theatre's International Sonic Disturbance Festival.

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a textural firm
                         (new gRiot) stories




Arable babble

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