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Poetry. "Grounded by generous humor, graced with charming music, Rick Mullin's latest collection, COELACANTH, mingles the modesty of a man 'in need / of better shoes' with the regal bearing of the artist-as-hero, one gifted with 'a formula for magic,' the last of an untamed, 'legendary breed.' In a world gone 'austere' and 'ashen,' in an age when 'mythology has reached a sorry pass,' we are comforted by Mullin's poems, which share with the famous living-fossil fish of the book's title the power to inspire wonder in things long since thought to have disappeared from the earth."—Ernest Hilbert

Rick Mullin's poetry has appeared in numerous journals and anthologies, including American Arts Quarterly, The Raintown Review, Unsplendid, Meas re, The Flea, and Ep;phany. He is the author of Aquinas Flinched (Exot Books, 2008), Hunck (Seven Towers, 2010), SOUTINE (Dos Madres Press, 2012) and COELACANTH (Dos Madres Press, 2013).