Barbara Helfgott Hyett
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Barbara Helfgott Hyett is the author of five collections of poetry, most recently Rift (Arkansas, 2008), for which she won The Boston Foundation’s Artist Fellowship Award. She is the co-founder of the Writer’s Room of Boston and the director of the POEMWORKS writing workshop. Her work has appeared in The Nation, Prairie Schooner, AGNI, and elsewhere. (updated 4/2016)