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National Book Foundation > Author > John Lee Clark
John Lee Clark is a National Magazine Award–winning writer and Protactile educator. He is the author of the poetry collection How to Communicate. A 2021–2023 Bush Fellow, he lives in Saint Paul, Minnesota. More about this author >
Formally restless and relentlessly instructive, How to Communicate is a dynamic journey through language, community, and the unfolding of an identity. Poet John Lee Clark pivots from inventive forms inspired by the Braille slate to sensuous prose poems to incisive erasures that find new narratives in nineteenth-century poetry. More about this book >