The Poet and the Poem
2024-25 Series

Featured Ryler Dustin

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Ryler Dustin is the author of Trailer Park Psalms, published in 2023 as winner of the University of Pittsburgh Press's Agnes Lynch Starrett Prize, and Heavy Lead Birdsong, published with Write Bloody in 2010. He has represented Seattle on the final stage of the Individual World Poetry Slam and holds graduate writing degrees from the University of Houston and the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. After living in Spain, Michigan, Jack Kerouac's former home, and a cabin in the Oregon wilderness, he recently returned to his hometown of Bellingham, Washington. You can find his work in places like Verse Daily, The Slowdown, and rylerdustin.com.

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