Starting from Anywhere William Granara A native of eastern Iowa

A native of eastern Iowa

Haggag Hassan Oddoul A short story Nights of Musk

A frequent collaborator with Kwame Dawes

A Different Kind of Woman and An Exceptional Passer-by

Starting from Anywhere William Granara A native of eastern Iowa"Starting from Anywhere is based upon the generous belief that poetry can begin with anything: a painting, a line from another poem, or even how perfectly ordinary things can 'balk account'. The urgency underlying these quiet poems reveals how the eye and imagination can, must, or perhaps simply will, remake the world. "From the first poem, 'In My Alternate Life', through the volume's mid point a short prose piece called 'When Fictions Are Facts',