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Becque Olson performed Duhamel's Barbie-poems in a one-woman show This Is Nothing New. Her poems have also been staged by actors at the Medicine Show, New York City. As first-prize winner in the Last Poem competition, her poem "Fear On 11th Street And Avenue A, New York City" was developed into a poetry video. A New York Foundation for the Arts recipient, Denise Duhamel has had residencies at Yaddo and The MacDowell Colony. She holds an MFA from Sarah Lawrence College and a BFA from Emerson College. She has been resident poet at Bucknell University and has taught at the West Side Y's Writer's Voice in New York City.