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Mar/Apr 2018 • Vol. XL No. 2 • Poetry |

Icarus Does the Dishes

By Tommye Blount

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Tommye Blount
Tommye Blount is the author of What Are We Not For, published by Bull City Press in 2016. A graduate of Warren Wilson College’s MFA Program for Writers, he has been the recipient of fellowships and scholarships from Cave Canem and Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference. He is from Detroit, Michigan.

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