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Mar/Apr 2016 • Vol. XXXVIII No. 2 • Poetry in Transylvania |

Tourniquet

By Tara Skurtu

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Tara Skurtu teaches incarcerated college students through Boston University’s Prison Education Program. She is the recipient of two Academy of American Poets Prizes and a Robert Pinsky Global Fellowship. Her recent work has appeared or is forthcoming in Poetry Review, Poetry Wales, Poet Lore, Plume, Memorious, DMQ Review, B O D Y, and Tahoma Literary Review.

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Sunset

By Amir Or

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