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Sept/Oct 2019 • Vol. XLI No. 5 • 2019 Patricia Grodd Poetry Prize for Young Writers |

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Text from Virginia Andrews, said she saw
Chris Gates’s father in town, said it was

heartbreaking, said it made her think about
not moving, then made her think about

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Martha Shaffer is a student at the South Carolina Governor’s School for the Arts and Humanities. She is from Columbia, South Carolina.

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