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Testing Gardening (audio only)
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Author
Marie Ponsot
Photo credit: Brian Palmer
The author of numerous works, Marie Ponsot won the National Book Critics Circle Award for her collection The Bird Catcher (Alfred A. Knopf, 1998). She served as a Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets from 2010 to 2014.