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Influences

An eclectic blend of influences across journalism and poetry: the famed investigative duo Barlett and Steele, currently of Vanity Fair; muckraking guru Seymour Hersh; journalist and author Ross Gelbspan; writers such as John Edgar Wideman, Michael Ondaatje, William Finnegan, Richard Ford, Jayne Anne Phillips; poets including Philip Levine, Sharon Olds, Mary Oliver, Donald Hall, Quincy Troupe, and many more.