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Courtney Flerlage

Courtney Flerlage received her MFA in creative writing from the University of Virginia. Her work has appeared in Narrative, Image, The Adroit Journal, Ninth Letter, Poetry Northwest, Crab Orchard Review, and elsewhere. She lives in Jacksonville, Florida.

Extinction

Summer 2024

To My Brother, Whistling

By Courtney Flerlage

The Kenyon Review · “To My Brother, Whistling” by Courtney Flerlage Which you’ve only just taught yourself, a man now at twenty-four, tones scratchy & blurred as you walk throughour […]