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Arlo Haskell


Arlo Haskell is a historian, poet, literary organizer, and publisher. Much of his work focuses on the literary and social histories of Key West, Florida. His forthcoming book is The Jews of Key West: Smugglers, Cigar Makers, and Revolutionaries (1823-1969) (November, 2017). He is also the author of the poetry collections Fool Proof (2003) and Joker (2009). As an editor, Haskell has worked on critically acclaimed editions of poetry and literature in translation, including The Last Books of Héctor Viel Temperley (translated by Stuart Krimko and named a BOMB magazine “Editor’s Choice” for 2011) and Harry Mathews’s poetry collection, The New Tourism (selected as a Times Literary Supplement “Book of the Year” in 2010). He is also the editor of Mathews’s posthumous Collected Poems: 1956-2016 (forthcoming, 2018). He lives with his family in Key West, where he is executive director of the Key West Literary Seminar. Presented as part of the Art of Bookmaking: Publishers Perspectives.

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