Janaka Stucky

Janaka Stucky is the Publisher of Black Ocean as well as the annual poetry journal, Handsome.  He is the author of Your Name is The Only Freedom and The World Will Deny It For You.  His poems have appeared in such journals as Denver Quarterly, Fence and North American Review, and his articles have been published by The Huffington Post and The Poetry Foundation.  He is a two-time National Haiku Chamption and in 2010 he was voted "Boston's Best Poet" in the Boston Phoenix.

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