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July/Aug 2021 • Vol. XLIII No. 4 |

I feel most like a zombi after consuming a cocktail

By Bryan Byrdlong

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Bryan Byrdlong is a Black writer from Chicago, Illinois. In high school, he was part of Chicago’s Louder Than a Bomb poetry slam competition. He has poems published in the Nashville Review, Pleiades, Apogee Journal, and Adroit Journal. Most recently, he is the winner of the Boulevard 2020 Contest for Emerging Poets. He is a graduate of the Helen Zell Writers’ Program at the University of Michigan.

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