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Milton J. Bates

Photograph by Elizabeth J. Bates

 

Coming of Age - Milton J. Bates
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Crossing the Waters - Milton J. Bates
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Photograph by Elizabeth J. Bates

 

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Photograph by Elizabeth J. Bates

 

Defiance - Milton J. Bates
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The Mummies of St. Michan's - Unknown Artist
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Skeleton Found in the Ore Dock - Milton J. Bates
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Superior Ice-Out - Milton J. Bates
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Totaled - Milton J. Bates
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Tragedy at Presque Isle - Milton J. Bates
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A Twilight Moonrise - Milton J. Bates
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The Votary - Milton J. Bates
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Stanza 1 of Wallace Stevens's poem "Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird." Calligraphy by Chen Hui.

 

Milton J. Bates is the author of books about the poet Wallace Stevens, the Vietnam War, and the Bark River valley in Wisconsin. A former Guggenheim Fellow, he has held Fulbright lectureships in American literature at universities in Beijing and Madrid. He is the author of two poetry chapbooks, Always on Fire (Five Oaks Press, 2016) and As They Were (YellowJacket Press, 2018). He keeps his wife, Elizabeth, supplied with copy for her elegant photographs.

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