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Nov 26, 2020 my work, 2020

Publication News: Three New Poems in Two Lovely Publications

You’d think that being shut in during the pandemic would have left me enough time to keep this website up-to-date, right? Hah! I should, for example, have posted this news back in September, when the publications Unlikely Stories and Open: Journal of Arts & Letters published some of my newest poems. You can find the work here:

I hope you’ll take a few minutes to check them out and, if you are so moved, let me know what you think.

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