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Fall 2008 • Vol. XXX No. 4 • Patricia Grodd Poetry Prize |

self-portrait

By Samantha Berstler

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Samantha Berstler currently attends Villa Walsh Academy in Morristown, New Jersey. She received the “prizeworthy” award from the 2008 NJCTE poetry contest and an honorable mention from the 2008 Nancy Thorp Poetry Prize. Her first published work is “self-portrait.”

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