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Sept/Oct 2016 • Vol. XXXVIII No. 5 • Poetry |

History (n.)

By John James

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John James is the author of Chthonic, winner of the 2014 CutBank Chapbook Award. His work appears or is forthcoming in Boston Review, Colorado Review, Gulf Coast, Tupelo Quarterly, Best New Poets 2013, and elsewhere. He lives in Washington, DC, where he serves as Graduate Associate to the Lannan Center for Poetics and Social Practice at Georgetown University.

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