Rachel Trousdale is a professor of English at Framingham State University. Her first book of poetry, Five-Paragraph Essay on the Body-Mind Problem, was selected by Robert Pinsky for the Cardinal Poetry Prize. Her poems have appeared in the Yale Review, The Nation, Diagram, and a chapbook, Antiphonal Future for Marx Brothers, Elephant, and Slide Trombone. Her latest scholarly book is Humor, Empathy, and Community in Twentieth-Century American Poetry.
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