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Fall 2023 • Vol. XLV No. 4 • Luminous Gender Vessel |

Someone’s at the Door

By Donika Kelly

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Donika Kelly is the author of The Renunciations, winner of the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award in Poetry, and Bestiary, the winner of the 2015 Cave Canem Poetry Prize, a Hurston/Wright Legacy Award, and a Kate Tufts Discovery Award. A recipient of a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts, Kelly is a Cave Canem graduate fellow and a founding member of the collective Poets at the End of the World. She currently lives in Iowa City, where she teaches creative writing at the University of Iowa.

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