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PRESS PLAY to hear Brad read from Curtain Optional

Brad Richard’s poetry collection Motion Studies (2011) won the 2010 Washington Prize from The Word Works and is available now.  He is also the co-author of Curtain Optional (Press Street, 2011) of the collection Habitations (Portals Press, New Orleans, 2000) and the limited edition chapbook The Men in the Dark (Lowlands Press, Stuttgart, Germany, 2004). He is a recipient of fellowships from the Surdna Foundation, the Louisiana Division of the Arts, and the National Endowment for the Humanities, and poetry winner in the Poets & Writers’ 2002 Writers Exchange competition, he is chair of creative writing at Lusher Charter High school in New Orleans.