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Fall 2023 • Vol. XLV No. 4 • Luminous Gender Vessel |

Blue or Green Poem

By S. Brook Corfman

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S. Brook Corfman is the author of the poetry collections My Daily Actions, or The Meteorites (Fordham, 2020), one of The New York Times Best Poetry Books of 2020, finalist for a Publishing Triangle Award, and winner of the Fordham University Press POL Prize chosen by Cathy Park Hong; and Luxury, Blue Lace (Autumn House, 2019), chosen by Richard Siken for the Rising Writer Prize. Read more at @sbrookcorfman and sbrookcorfman.com.

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