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		 On writing poetry Kurt Vonnegut wrote, "Practice any art [...] no matter how well or badly, not to get money and fame, but to experience becoming, to find out what's inside, to make your soul grow."  | 
	Marilyn J. Baszczynski is a writer, storyteller, reader, 
	teacher, student, gardener, wife, mother and grandmother. Lately she's been writing a lot of poetry; 
	her chapbook, daughter, while i'm still here was published by Finishing Line Press in May, 2024. 
	 Marilyn is currently Editor of Lyrical Iowa, annual anthology of the Iowa Poetry Association.  | 
	
	
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