Run the Red Lights. Ed Skoog
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Run the Red Lights
• Skoog’s work has appeared in Poetry, American Poetry Review, The Paris Review, and Ploughshares.• Skoog is a rare voice from the periphery of academic circles. He’s taught in both colleges and high schools, and he’s led workshops for graduate students as well as the homeless.• Skoog plays a mean banjo, and there are lots of musical references throughout the book, from the Grateful Dead and the Macarena to Alex Chilton.• Because Skoog has lived in so many places and has become active in many different artistic communities, his work has a wide geographical appeal.• Ed Skoog worked at “The World Famous Topeka Zoo” all during high school. He wanted to be a zoologist when he graduated, but by the time he left college, he was considering a career in politics after a stint as the student body president.• Also worked in the basement of the New Orleans Art Museum before Katrina and has a facility with and knowledge of the world of outsider artists.