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Andrea Syzdek

Andrea Syzdek

Andrea Syzdek received her MFA in Poetry in 2017. Her reviews have been published by Kenyon Review Online and Pleiades. She currently lives in Hockley, Texas. Twitter: @andrea_syzdek. Website: andreasyzdek.com.

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On The Bridge by Mary Austin Speaker

By Andrea Syzdek

Mary Austin Speaker’s second full-length book, The Bridge, is a delightfully surrealistic collection of prismatic, mind-driven poems which dazzle and surprise for the simple reason that they honor mindfulness and the observant eye.