Mark Yakich is an author and professor in the Department of English at Loyola University. His collection of poems Unrelated Individuals Forming a Group Waiting to Cross was one of five winners of The National Poetry Series in 2003. Another collection, The Making of Collateral Beauty, won the Snowbound Chapbook Award and was published by Tupelo Press in 2006. His most recent collection is The Importance of Peeling Potatoes in Ukraine (Penguin Poets, 2008).
Belinda Subraman Presents produces the Gypsy Art Show which specializes in interviews and performances of poets, writers , musicians and occasionally has an interview with an outstanding contributor to another field..
Originally (in 2005) Belinda Subraman Presents was the umbrella name for several shows produced by Belinda. This is why if you want to download to your ipod you need to subscribe to Belinda Subraman Presents rather than to the Gypsy Art Show.
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