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Winter 2025 • Vol. XLVII No. 1 Poetry |

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Kelleen Zubick is a poet living in Denver whose work has been published in numerous journals, including december, Clackamas Literary Review, and Michigan State University Libraries Short Edition: Water. She earned her MFA from Arizona State University and has been awarded residencies by the Anderson Center and the Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts. Her full-length poetry manuscript Travelogue was a 2020 National Poetry Series finalist.

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