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Amanda Auerbach

Amanda Auerbach’s book What Need Have We For Such as We was published by C&R Press in 2019. Her poems have also been published in Kenyon Review, Paris Review, and Conjunctions. She is an assistant professor of English at Catholic University in Washington, DC.

Poetry

July/Aug 2018

Removing Degrees

By Amanda Auerbach

The man I live with looks like his brother who back in the day would have stepped in if an emergency should happen. But today my brother-in-law sits far away […]

Poetry

July/Aug 2018

Self-Having

By Amanda Auerbach

My bra is fresh washed and smells of fresh scent as my hair smells of the cucumber-mint conditioner custom ordered as a gift for my type of hair and so […]