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Autumn 2004 • Vol. XXVI No. 4 • Patricia Grodd Poetry Prize |

A Birth

By Robin Myers

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Robin Myers lives in Maplewood, New Jersey. This past year she was the first-place winner of the Nancy Thorp Poetry Contest at Hollins University. "A Birth" is her first published work.

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