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Rodger LeGrand is an excellent poet whose work keeps getting better and better. The language of LeGrand's poetry moves from surprise to surprise. Always there is a shuffling between clarity and mystery, precision and ambiguity, humor and darkness....

-Stephen Dobyns, Pallbearers Envying the One Who Rides

Poetry instructors could spend entire sessions on what makes [LeGrand's poetry] so right. Many of these poems reek of death, and they accomplish one of poetry's goals: to tell us how to live until we die.

-Danny Romine Powell, The Charlotte Observer

Many of the poems in Rodger Legrand's poetry...are like sweet liquid disguising bitter medicine-until the aftertaste kicks in. As he picks his way along the narrow and treacherous boundary separating acceptance from surrender, LeGrand adds rich imagery and clever metaphor to that currently popular disclaimer, "it is what it is".

-Darrell Laurant, The Kudzu Kid, Inspiration Street, Snowflakes in a Blizzard

Rodger LeGrand is a Pushcart nominated poet and the author of several collections of poetry, including Studies for a Self-Portrait (Big Table 2019) and Two Thirds Water (Flutter Press 2018). His first short collection of poetry, Various Ways of Thinking About the Universe, was published in 2005 by Finishing Line Press. His poems have appeared in many literary journals, including Evening Street Review, Cortland Review, and Boston Literary Magazine. He has taught writing at MIT and the University of Pennsylvania. Currently he designs humanitarian education courses at the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative.