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Award winning poet Dan Pohl lives in Moundridge, Kansas, and instructs English composition at Hutchinson Community College. Pohl, along with his daughter Jessie, an artist who graduated from Bethel College (Newton, Kansas) in 2014, winner of the rasher Award for academic excellence, illustrates her father's works as well as children's books. In 2014, Pohl's book Autochthonous: Found in Place (Woodley Press), illustrated by Jessie, won the Nelson Poetry Book Award from the Kansas Authors Club. Pohl has appeared in many anthologies. You can find his works in Begin Again: 150 Kansas Poems (Woodley Press, 2013) and To the Stars through Diffculties (Mammoth Publications) both edited by past Kansas laureate, 2009-2013, Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg. Recent anthologies include 365 Days: A Poetry Anthology (365 Days Poetry, 2016 - edited by Roy Bekemeyer, James Benger, Dan Pohl, and Diane Wahto), as well as Gimme Your Lunch Money: Heartland Poets Speak Out against Bullies (Paladin Contemporaries) 2016 - edited by Dennis Etzel, Jr. and Lindsey Martin-Bowen. Many of Pohl's works can be found online, starting with kansaspoets.com. Jessie Pohl resides in Kansas City interacting with its art community.