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Summer 2025 • Vol. XLVII No. 3 • Poetry |

Low Boy

By Jordan Hamel

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Jordan Hamel is a writer from New Zealand. He holds an MFA from the University of Michigan. His debut poetry collection Everyone is Everyone Except You was published by Dead Bird Books in NZ and by Broken Sleep in the UK. He is the winner of the 2023 Sonora Review MERCY Contest and the 2023 New Writers UK Poetry Competition. Recent work can be found or is forthcoming in Poetry, Poetry Daily, Electric Literature, The Adroit Journal, Fence, and elsewhere.

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