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This semester, Cornell’s MFA Creative Writing program is lucky to have not one but three prestigious visiting writers: Paul Lisicky, Mark Doty and Denis Johnson. All three writers read selections from their work to a packed auditorium in Rockefeller Hall on Friday night, kicking off the department’s spring reading series. Not only have these authors explored several genres over the course of their careers, they have also helped blur the entrenched divisions between poetry and prose, fiction and memoir, journalism and art.