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Winter 2024 • Vol. XLVI No. 1 • Poetry |

Sprezzatura

By David Joez Villaverde

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David Joez Villaverde holds an MFA from the Helen Zell Writers' Program at the University of Michigan. A CantoMundo fellow, he has received honors from the American Academy of Poets, Best New Poets, The Hopwood Awards, and Black Warrior Review. His work is forthcoming in AGNI, FENCE, and Fugue. He lives in New York and can be found at schadenfreudeanslip.com

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