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Richard Exner (1929–2008) was a German poet, critic, and translator. He spent much of his career teaching at the University of California at Santa Barbara.

Richard Exner (1929–2008) was a German poet, critic, and translator. He spent much of his career teaching at the University of California at Santa Barbara.

Martha Collins is the author of ten collections of poetry, most recently Because What Else Could I Do (Pittsburgh, 2019), Night Unto Night (Milkweed, 2018), and Admit One: An American Scrapbook (Pittsburgh, 2016). She has co-translated four volumes of Vietnamese poetry, including Black Stars: Poems by Ngo Tu Lap (Milkweed, 2013, with the author). She founded the creative writing program at UMass Boston and taught at Oberlin College for ten years. (updated 9/2020)