Many of the poems in Norbert's first book, Cracked River (Slow Dancer Press, 1999) were written or begun during the time he was earning his MFA at Vermont College. Norbert worked successively with Lyn Emmanuel, Syd Leay, Jonathan Holden, and David Wojahn.
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