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BJ Omanson

Morgantown, West Virginia

BJ Omanson is the author of Stark County Poems (2020) and This Man’s Army: A War in Fifty-Odd Sonnets (2008), among other books. His work has appeared in The Hudson Review, Verse, Shenandoah, and the Sewanee Review. Omanson lives in Morgantown, West Virginia, where he runs Monongahela Books.

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