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Nov/Dec 2016 • Vol. XXXVIII No. 6 The Longer Lyric |

Postcolonial Album: 1980

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Annie Kim’s first poetry collection, Into the Cyclorama, won the Michael Waters Poetry Prize and will be published this month by the University of Southern Indiana. Kim’s poems appear in journals such as Mudlark, Ninth Letter, Asian American Literary Review, and DMQ Review. She works at the University of Virginia School of Law as the assistant dean for public service.

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