Bruce Dethlefsen was born in Kansas City, Missouri in 1948 and moved to Wisconsin in 1966.
Losing Purchase is his fourth full-length book of poems..
A retired school librarian and public library director, he plays in the Prairie Sands Band and runs poetry workshops in Wisconsin prisons.
He was Wisconsin Poet Laureate (2011-2012).
Bruce Dethlefsen was born in Kansas City, Missouri in 1948 and moved to Wisconsin in 1966