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Paul Foster Johnson's second full-length collection of poems, Study in Pavilions and Safe Rooms will be released in the fall of 2010. Paul Foster Johnson's Study in Pavilions and Safe Rooms is an exploration of public and private space at their extremes. Taking their titles from state-planned exhibition halls and panic rooms built for riding out the apocalypse, these poems stage collisions of aesthetics, politics, and history I artificial environments. In these phenomenological investigations, principles of order and constraint go awry under the sway of unruly and contradictory forces. This book is generously supported by a Face-Out Grant from the Jerome Foundation, administered through clmp. Forthcoming chapbooks include works by Jesse Seldess and Arnold Kemp.