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Spring 2025 • Vol. XLVII No. 2 • Poetry |

Expiration / Divination

By Jen Silverman

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Jen Silverman (they/them) is a poet, playwright, and novelist whose books include the novels There’s Going to Be Trouble (Random House, 2024) and We Play Ourselves (Random House, 2022) and the chapbook Bath (Driftwood Press, 2022, selected by Traci Brimhall). Her play The Roommate recently made its Broadway debut with Mia Farrow and Patti LuPone. Silverman’s honors include fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Guggenheim Foundation.

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