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Thomas Devaney is a poet and author of Calamity Jane (Furniture Press, 2014), The Picture that Remains (The Print Center, 2014), A Series of Small Boxes (Fish Drum, 2007), The American Pragmatist Fell in Love (Banshee Press, 1999), and the nonfiction book Letters to Ernesto Neto (Germ Folios, 2005). Projects include, “Tales from the 215” for “Philadelphia Freedom” with Zoe Strauss, the “The Empty House” at the Edgar Allan Poe National Historic Site for “The Big Nothing” at the Institute of Contemporary Art, and “Common Ground: Seven Philadelphia Photographers in the 1960s and 1970s” at the Philadelphia Museum of Art. Devaney is the recipient of a Pew Fellowship in the Arts for poetry (2014). He teaches at Haverford College.