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Mason Wray

Mason Wray is a poet from Georgia. His poems have appeared in Ploughshares, RHINO, New Ohio Review, Willow Springs, and others. He is a graduate of the MFA program at the University of Mississippi and has received support from organizations including Bread Loaf, the Hambidge Center, and the Mount, Edith Wharton’s Home. He serves as a poetry editor at Bear Review and lives in Atlanta.

Translation Folio

Winter 2025

After Birds

By Mason Wray

In Warsaw, they’ve translatedthe former communist headquartersinto a shot bar.We sip Sobieski out backwhere officials went to saywhat they couldn’t insidefor fear of being understoodby the wrong people.How to explain,Oleg […]