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Jan/Feb 2015 • Vol. XXXVII No. 1 • Patricia Grodd Poetry Prize |

indigo sister

First-prize Winner
2014 Patricia Grodd Poetry Prize for Young Writers

Can we make love to the rhythms of a “little early Miles” when he may have spent the morning of the day he recorded the music slapping one of our sisters in the mouth?
                        — Mad at Miles, Pearl Cleage

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Michaela Jenkins attends the South Carolina Governor's School for the Arts and Humanities. She is from Columbia, South Carolina. She enjoys reading and cooking.

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