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Amanda Calderon

Amanda Calderon holds an MFA from New York University. She was a 2014 Poets House Emerging Poets Fellow and a 2012 fellow at the Norman Mailer Writers Colony. Other writing can be found in Poetry, Poets & Writers, and Words Without Borders.

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Mar/Apr 2015

The Khan’s Wife

By Amanda Calderon

Nature is nothing but information It is undeniably beautiful: Late June, snow falling: Coins, keys, seashells, perfumebottles, eagle claws—souvenirs or good price and a jangling First, to know it is […]

Amanda Calderon

Amanda Calderon holds an MFA from New York University. She was a 2014 Poets House Emerging Poets Fellow and a 2012 fellow at the Norman Mailer Writers Colony. Other writing […]