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Richard Jones
Portrait of Richard Jones

Richard Jones is the author of seven books of poems, including his most recent volume, Apropos of Nothing (Copper Canyon Press, 2006), and a forthcoming collection, The Correct Spelling & Exact Meaning (Copper Canyon, 2009). A volume of new and collected poems, The Blessing (Copper Canyon, 2000), won the Society of Midland Authors Award for poetry. A new collection, King of Hearts, is forthcoming from Adastra Press. For twenty-nine years he has been editor of the literary journal Poetry East, which celebrates poetry, translation, and art from around the world; he also edits the journal’s free poetry app, “The Poet’s Almanac.” He lives in Chicago, where he is a professor of English at DePaul University. (updated 9/2015)

AGNI has published the following work:

Poetry
At the Carnavalet and the Cognacq-J
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Poetry
Christ in the Garden of Olives
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Poetry
Today I Am Wearing a Suit
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Fiction
The Summer of Writing Movies
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