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Winter 2025 • Vol. XLVII No. 1 • Far Corners Folio |

Yellow Period

By James O’Leary

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James O’Leary is a trans poet from Arizona. Their work has been nominated for the Best New Poets, Best of the Net, and Pushcart Prize anthologies and has appeared in such journals as Frontier Poetry, Protean Magazine, Booth, and Foglifter. O’Leary holds an MFA from Sarah Lawrence College, serves as a poetry reader for ANMLY, and is currently working on their first full-length poetry manuscript. For a time, they tried the name Willow James Claire. They live in Southern California.

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