Will Nixon is the author of several poetry books as well as a co-author with Michael Perkins of Walking Woodstock: Journeys into the Wild Heart of America's Most Famous Small Town. He blogs about poetry at willnixon.com.
Listener Essay - No Golf in the Kingdom
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