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Fall 2024 • Vol. XLVI No. 4 • Poetry |

Hummingbird

By Kenton K. Yee

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Kenton K. Yee’s recent poems appear (or will soon) in Plume Poetry, The Threepenny Review, RHINO, The Cincinnati Review, Hawaii Pacific Review, Constellations: A Journal of Poetry and Fiction, The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, Grain, Scientific American, and Rattle, among others. Yee holds a PhD in theoretical physics from UCLA as well as law and business degrees from Stanford University, and he has taught at Columbia University. Though he writes about a wide variety of topics, he loves exploring quantum mechanics and cosmology.

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