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Summer 2024 • Vol. XLVI No. 3 • Extinction |

A Highway Runs Through Town

By Jessica Abughattas

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Jessica Abughattas is the author of Strip (University of Arkansas, 2020), winner of the 2020 Etel Adnan Poetry Prize. Her short poetry film, Dinner Party, premiered at Mizna’s Twin Cities Arab Film Festival in 2021. Her poems appear in Guernica, Los Angeles Review of Books, The Yale Review, and elsewhere.

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