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Spring 2025 • Vol. XLVII No. 2 Poetry |

Even in the City, Watching an Old Man Dance with a Plastic Skeleton in the Times Square Subway Station, I long for the City

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Selena Spier is a graduate of Columbia University’s MA/EdM program in counseling psychology. Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in EPOCH, Palette Poetry, The Threepenny Review, and elsewhere. She lives in New York City, where she works at the nonprofit Brooklyn Poets and cocurates the KGB Bar Monday Night Poetry Series.

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