Billie Duncan|

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Billie Duncan is a popular performance poet and author of four poetry books, including Beneath the Desk (acquired by Brown University for inclusion in the Harris Collection of American Poems and Plays) and Requiem for the Plastic Clown (which won the Weasel Press Chapbook Competition). Duncan is also a journalist, photographer, and artist, and her poems, articles, columns, photography, and artwork have been published in numerous journals, anthologies, magazines, and newspapers. She is the director of and a performer/writer in The Balcony Poets. This collaborative performance group melds multi-voice poetry with live music and art inspired by the poetry. She is also the communications director of Houston Poetry Fest and coordinator of Houston Poetry Summit, as well as promoting and consulting for many other poetry organizations.

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