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After almost a decade of working as a freelance
photographer in Europe, Maurice Oliver returned to
America in 1990 to work for the Los Angeles Times.
Then, in 1995, he made a lifelong dream reality by
traveling around the world for eight months. But
instead of taking pictures, he used the same acute
creative energy to record the experience in a journal,
which eventually became dozens of poems. And so began
his ambition to be a poet. His poetry has appeared
online in ink-mag.com, retortmag.com,
deepcleveland.com, tmpoetry.com, readingdivas.com,
spitjawreview.com,diceybrown.com, in One Forty Two
Magazine, Holy Ignorance, Eye-Shot, The Surface, Slow
Trains, Tryst3 Journal, The Potomac Journal,
SrideMagazine(UK), and will appear in coming
Spring/Summer 2004 issues of alba.com, poesiamag.com,
wordsonwalls.net, and TaintMagazine. He presently
resides in Portland, Oregon, where he works as a
tutor.