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Spring 2005 • Vol. XXVII No. 2 • New Voices |

From “O Woolly City”

By Priscilla Sneff

Winner of the 2004 Kenyon Review Prize in Poetry

 

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PRISCILLA SNEFF has received writing grants from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Massachusetts Cultural Council. She teaches at Tufts University.

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