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Fall 2009 • Vol. XXXI No. 4 • Poetry |

A Family Romance

By Adam Day

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Adam Day is the author of Model of a City in Civil War (Sarabande Books), and is the recipient of a Poetry Society of America Chapbook Fellowship for Badger, Apocrypha, a PEN Emerging Writers Award, and an Al Smith Fellowship from the Kentucky Arts Council. His poems have appeared in Boston Review, the Kenyon Review, American Poetry Review, Lana Turner, the Iowa Review, and elsewhere. He coordinates the Baltic Writing Residency in Latvia, Scotland, and the Bernheim Arboretum & Research Forest.

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