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Fall 2025 • Vol. XLVII No. 4 • Poetry |

Proverbial

By Lynne Jensen Lampe

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Lynne Jensen Lampe’s poetry appears in Stone Circle Review, Okay Donkey, One, The Journal of Compressed Creative Arts, THRUSH, and other journals, as well as anthologies in the US, UK, and Germany. Her debut collection, Talk Smack to a Hurricane (Ice Floe Press, 2022), an Eric Hoffer Book Award winner and finalist for the Phillip H. McMath Award, concerns motherhood, mental illness, and antisemitism. A finalist for the Red Wheelbarrow Poetry Prize.

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