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Sept/Oct 2022 • Vol. XLIV No. 5 Poetry |

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Peter LaBerge is the author of the chapbooks Makeshift Cathedral (YesYes Books, 2017) and Hook (Sibling Rivalry Press, 2015). His poetry has received a Pushcart Prize and has appeared in AGNI, American Poetry Review, Best New Poets, The Georgia Review, The Kenyon Review, and New England Review. LaBerge received his BA from the University of Pennsylvania and his MFA from New York University, where he studied as a Writers in the Public Schools Fellow. He is the founder and editor in chief of The Adroit Journal and the founder of Ellipsis Writing. For more, visit peterlaberge.com.

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