Sean Lause poetry in national anthology
Poemsby Sean Lause of Bluffton are included in the 2018 edition of Quiet Diamonds, the annual poetry journal from The Orchard Street Press.
Poems in the anthology were selected from entries to The Orchard Street Press annual poetry contest, a national competition.
Lause is a professor of English at Rhodes State College. He recently released "Wakeful Fathers and Dreaming Sons," an chapbook that deals with fathers and sons and the post-industrial experience in the Lima-Bluffton area.
Copies of Quiet Diamonds are available for $13 from The Orchard Street Press, PO Box 280, Gastes Mills, OH 44040.
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