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Sept/Oct 2021 • Vol. XLIII No. 5 |

Why I’m Always Doing This

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Matt Hart’s most recent books are Sermons and Lectures Both Blank and Relentless and Debacle Debacle. A co-founder and the editor-in-chief of Forklift, Ohio: A Journal of Poetry, Cooking, & Light Industrial Safety, he teaches at the Art Academy of Cincinnati and plays in the band TRAVEL.

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