Elizabeth Seydel Morgan is the author of three books of poetry from Louisiana State University Press: Parties, The Governor of Desire, and On Long Mountain. Her forthcoming collection (spring 2007) from LSU is Without a Philosophy. Morgan’s poems have appeared in Blackbird, Poetry, The Virginia Quarterly Review, Five Points,
The Georgia Review, The Southern Review, and The Iowa Review. In 2005 she was the first winner (with Ron Smith) of the Carole Weinstein Prize in Poetry, given to a central Virginia poet for contributions to the art of poetry. 

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