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RICHARD KOSTELANETZ
DESIGN BY EUN-HA PAEK

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The Rusty Toque | Poetry | Issue 2 | February 27, 2012

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Individual entries on RICHARD KOSTELANETZ'S work in several fields appear in various editions of Readers Guide to Twentieth-Century Writers, Merriam-Webster Encyclopedia of Literature, Contemporary Poets, Contemporary Novelists, Postmodern Fiction, Webster's Dictionary of American Writers, The HarperCollins Reader’s Encyclopedia of American Literature, Baker's Biographical Dictionary of Musicians, Directory of American Scholars, Who's Who in America, Who's Who in the World, Who's Who in American Art, NNDB.com, Wikipedia.com, and Britannica.com, among other distinguished directories. Otherwise, he survives in New York, where he was born, unemployed and thus overworked. Website: http://www.richardkostelanetz.com