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May/June 2016 • Vol. XXXVIII No. 3 • Nature's Nature |

From “Paroxysm”

By Justin Phillip Reed

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Justin Phillip Reed is the author of Indecency (Coffee House Press), winner of the 2018 National Book Award in Poetry and a finalist for the 2019 Kate Tufts Discovery Award. His second full-length collection of poetry, The Malevolent Volume, will be released in Spring 2020. His work appears in African American Review, Denver Quarterly, Guernica, New Republic, Obsidian, and elsewhere. He is the 2019-2021 Fellow in Creative Writing at the Center for African American Poetry and Poetics. Come see about him at justinphillipreed.com.

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