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Spring 2003 • Vol. XXV No. 2 • Poetry |

Pity the Self— Middle-Aged

By Susan Hahn

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Susan Hahn has published nine books of poetry, two produced plays and a novel. She was the inaugural Writer-in Residence at the Hemingway Foundation in 2013-2014. She has just completed a new fiction manuscript and her new website, www.susanhahnauthor.com, went online last week.

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