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Gaia Rajan

Gaia Rajan is the author of the chapbooks Moth Funerals (Glass Poetry Press 2020) and Killing It (Black Lawrence Press 2022). His work is published in the Academy of American Poets Poem-A-Day, Best New Poets, the 2022 Best of the Net anthology, and elsewhere. He is a poetry reader for Poetry Northwest, and lives in Chicago.

Patricia Grodd Poetry Prize

Sept/Oct 2021

Ghost Town, Ohio

By Gaia Rajan

Runner-up2021 Patricia Grodd Poetry Prize for Young Writers Anything can be a spinning tire or anything can be a dead endspeckled with spit or anything can be a memorialif you […]