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Aimee Nezhukumatathil (Fredonia, NY) is reading Blood, Sparrows and Sparrows, by Eugenia Leigh with Haiku, her poetry intern/wonder-chihuahua. Aimee wears Fluevogs and thanks you very much for checking in on this little poetry & shoes curation during National Poetry Month. 

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Rita Dove (Charlottesville, VA) wears hand-made tango shoes from Buenos Aires, Argentina. “The shoes have suede soles (for smooth spins/pivoting) and are made to fit like the proverbial glove; the brand is Neo Tango, named after the edgier, hiphop-inspired tango music that has emerged in recent years.” She is re-reading Anne Sexton's The Complete Poems -- all of it, from Maxine Kumin's brave and smart foreword to the Index of Titles, which reads like a poem all by itself...Ah, Anne Sexton: "I'll dance in the city./ I'll wear red for a burning." (From her poem "Killing the Love")  

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Patrick Rosal (Philadelphia Correction) is reading Silent Anatomies by Monica Ong. Right foot: Tiger Onitsuka (red w white and gray stripe); Left foot Chima Ferguson Pro Vans (Gray Leaf design).

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Sarah Gambito (New York, NY) is reading Cathy Linh Che's Split and wears Sorel boots.

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Danez Smith (Minneapolis, MN) is reading The Kitchen Dweller's Testimony by Ladan Osman. He wears CLARKS Shoes.

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Jon Loomis (Eau Claire, WI) is reading Sandra Beasley’s “I Was the Jukebox,” also re-reading Charles Wright’s “Country Music” for about the millionth time. Boots are by Tony Lamas (rattlesnake!), Gibson Les Paul. 

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Marie-Elizabeth Mali (Dominica in the Eastern Caribbean) is swimming with sperm whales & reading Saeed Jones' Prelude to Bruise. The shoes are Olukai

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Tamiko Beyer (Boston, MA) is journeying through Carla Harryman and Lyn Hejinian's The Wide Road. She is wearing Frye heels.

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Leslie Adrienne Miller (St. Paul, MN) is reading Angie Estes' Enchantée and wears Naot shoes.

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Jennifer Militello is wearing Nature Breeze boots in Bath, England, and is currently reading The Poem She Didn't Write and Other Poems by Olena Kalytiak Davis.

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Robert Fanning (Mount Pleasant, MI) is reading AY by Joan Houlihan. He wears Salvation Army shoes.

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Don Share (Chicago, IL) is reading Disinformation, by Frances Leviston and wears “muddy old” shoes.

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Sharon Suzuki-Martinez (Tempe, AZ) is reading Of Lamb by Matthea Harvey. She wears ECCO shoes.

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Jennifer Jean (Peabody, MA) is reading The Big Smoke by Adrian Matejka. She wears 5 Below Faux Crocs (with optional interior fleece).

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Alex Dimitrov (New York, NY) is reading The Uses of the Body by Deborah Landau. He's wearing hi-top black leather chucks.

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Stacey Lynn Brown (Bloomington, IN) is reading If the Tabloids Are True What Are You, by Matthea Harvey and wears Frye boots.

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Karen Craigo (Springfield, MO) is reading "Teratology" by Susannah Nevison and wears Cobbie Cuddlers casual shoes,