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Nov/Dec 2017 • Vol. XXXIX No. 6 • Poetry |

Ask the Locals

By Monica Sok

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Monica Sok
Monica Sok is a Cambodian American poet from Lancaster, Pennsylvania. She has received fellowships and awards from the National Endowment for the Arts, Poetry Society of America, Kundiman, the Elizabeth George Foundation, and the Stadler Center for Poetry. She holds an MFA in creative writing from New York University.

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Windfall

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