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Dustin Luke Nelson

Dustin Luke Nelson is the author of the forthcoming poetry collection “in the office hours of the polar vortex” (Robocup). His performance film STRIKE TWO debuted with Gauss PDF and the second part of the series, BATTLESHIP POTEMKIN, was performed at the Flux Factory. His Guinness World Record performance APPLAUSE was performed at the Walker Art Center’s Open Field. His poems have appeared in the Best American Experimental Writing, Fence and other publications. Other writing has appeared at Modern Notion, The Hockey Writers, The Rumpus, Electric Literature and elsewhere. His digital self is housed at dustinlukenelson.com.

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Seinfeld's George Costanza holds a strange place in culture. He's loved, but unlovable. At the heart of that contradiction is his status as folk hero.
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The smartest dumbest show ever created for television.
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We've made available two poems each by Ellen Bryant Voigt and Ben Lerner, 2015 recipients of the MacArthur "Genius" Grant.
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Napoleon Dynamite & the Neo-Western Film

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