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Fall 2025 • Vol. XLVII No. 4 Visitation |

Matisse in Vence

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Arthur Brown’s poems have been published in The New Criterion, Plume, Janus Head, Poetry, Agni, Michigan Quarterly Review, Southwest Review, and other journals. He has published two poetry books and his poems have won the Morton Marr and the American Literary Review poetry prizes.

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