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SUMMARY:Matthew G. Frank
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 Matthew Gavin Frank was born and raised in Chicago. 
 Bitten by the food, wine, and travel bug, 
 he left home at age seventeen, embracing the 
 vagabond lifestyle that often lent itself 
 to work in the restaurant industry. He returned 
 to academia and received his MFA in Poetry 
 and Creative Nonfiction from Arizona State University. 
 He taught creative writing to undergraduates 
 in Phoenix, Arizona, and poetry to 
 soldiers and their families near Fort Drum in 
 upstate New York on the Canadian border. \n
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 Frank's new book, The Mad Feast: An Ecstatic 
 Tour Through America's Food, is forthcoming 
 November 2015 from W.W. Norton: Liveright.  
 Frank is also the author of Preparing the Ghost: 
 An Essay Concerning the Giant Squid and Its 
 First Photographer (W.W. Norton: Liveright), 
 Barolo (The University of Nebraska Press), 
 a food memoir based on his illegal work in the 
 Italian wine industry, and Pot Farm (The University 
 of Nebraska Press / Bison Books), about 
 his time working on a medical marijuana 
 farm in Northern California. His poetry collection, 
 The Morrow Plots, is available from Black 
 Lawrence Press/Dzanc Books. His poetry book, 
 Sagittarius Agitprop is available from Black 
 Lawrence Press/Dzanc Books. His poetry book, 
 Warranty in Zulu is available from Barrow 
 Street Press. He is also the author of the chapbooks 
 Four Hours to Mpumalanga (Pudding House 
 Publications), a poetry sequence about his 
 initial visit to his wife's homeland in rural 
 South Africa, and Aardvark (West Town Press), 
 a poetry sequence that strangely engages 
 the alphabet.\n
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 Frank is the recipient of an 
 Illinois Arts Council Fellowship, an Artist's 
 Grant to the Vermont Studio Center, the Sonoran 
 Prize for Poetry, and numerous grants from 
 the Virginia G. Piper Center for the Creative 
 Arts. Presently, he teaches Creative Writing 
 at Grand Valley State University in Michigan.\n
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 (Description 
 Courtesy of matthewgfrank.com)\n
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 Cosponsored 
 by: English Department, 
 RCAH Center for Poetry\n\n
 Price: free\n
 Sponsor: Administration\n
 Sponsor's Homepage: http://www.lib.msu.edu\n
 Contact name: Holly Flynn\n
 Contact phone: 517-884-0901\n
 Contact email: flynnhol@msu.edu\n
LOCATION:MSU Main Library Green Room (W444)
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