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Rick Kempa

Rick Kempa, poet and essayist, lives in Rock Springs, Wyoming. Recently retired after thirty years of teaching at Western Wyoming College, he has embarked on a path of full-time writing and walking. Kempa has edited two books about the Grand Canyon, ON FOOT: Grand Canyon Backpacking Stories and Going Down Grand: Poems from the Canyon. His latest poetry collection is Ten Thousand Voices. 

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