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Fall 2024 • Vol. XLVI No. 4 • Rural Spaces |

Spring-Loaded

By David Thacker

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David Thacker is a recipient of the Creative Writing Award from the Western Literature Association, a Pushcart Prize Special Mention, and has been a finalist for the Donald Hall Prize for Poetry, the Berkshire Prize, and the Levis Prize. His poems have appeared in Orion, Tin House, Beloit Poetry Journal, Plume, LitHub, and elsewhere. Thacker directs the Visiting Writer Seminar at the Ethel Walker School.

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