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Spring 2023 • Vol. XLV No. 2 Poetry |

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Danusha Laméris is the author of Bonfire Opera (University of Pittsburgh Press, Pitt Poetry Series, 2020), winner of a Northern California Book Award. Some of her work has been published in The Best American Poetry, Orion, The New York Times, The American Poetry Review, Ploughshares, and Prairie Schooner. She coleads the Poetry of Resilience webinars with James Crews and is on the faculty of Pacific University’s low residency MFA program. She lives in Santa Cruz, California.

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