Jaswinder Bolina is an American poet. He is the author of the

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''The Tallest Building in America'' (2014) and a book of essays ''Of Color'' (2020). His full-length poetry collections are ''Carrier Wave'' (2007); ''Phantom Camera'' (2013), which won the Green Rose Prize in Poetry from

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; and ''The 44th of July''. Bolina's poems have been published on the Poetry Society of America's website. Bolina was born in Chicago. He is an

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at the

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, where he currently teaches in the MFA program.

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