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Jeff McCallum is a poet and building contractor in Minneapolis. He published "Somebody's Bright Baloon," a collection of poems for and about cancer survivors and caregivers. He remains active in the civil rights movement and serves on the board of Mixed Blood Theater in Minneapolis.