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Bryce Emley

Bryce Emley is the author of the chapbooks A Brief Family History of Drowning (Sonder Press, forthcoming) and Smoke and Glass (Folded Word, 2018). He works in marketing at the University of New Mexico Press and is Poetry Editor of Raleigh Review. Read more at bryceemley.com.

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By Bryce Emley

For most of the period I now call “lockdown,” I’d get weekly calls, not from my brother, exactly, but from an automated voice representing Securus, the communications technology firm his […]