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July/Aug 2022 • Vol. XLIV No. 4 • Poetry |

Not if, but when

By Anna V. Q. Ross

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Anna V. Q. Ross’s most recent book, Flutter, Kick, won the 2020 Benjamin Saltman Poetry Award and is forthcoming this fall from Red Hen Press. Among her honors are fellowships from the U. S. Fulbright Program and the Mass Cultural Council. Her work appears in The Nation, The Baffler, The Southern Review, and elsewhere. Ross is poetry editor for Salamander Magazine and teaches in the Department of Writing, Literature, & Publishing at Emerson College and through the Emerson Prison Initiative.

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