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Dear/Deer

By Harrison Hamm

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Harrison Hamm is the author of If It’s Country Music You Want (Poetry Society of America, 2026), winner of the 2025 Poetry Society of America Chapbook Fellowship. He was a 2025 finalist for the Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Fellowship. His writing appears in Best New Poets, Poetry, The Missouri Review, The Poetry Review, TriQuarterly, Verse Daily, and elsewhere. Originally from rural Tennessee, Hamm is currently a Goldwater Writing Workshop Fellow and MFA candidate in creative writing at New York University.

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