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Winter 2025 • Vol. XLVII No. 1 • Poetry |

The Bird Cage

By Victoria Chang

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Victoria Chang’s most recent book of poems is With My Back to the World (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2024), which received the Forward Prize for Poetry. Chang is the Bourne Chair in Poetry at Georgia Tech and serves as Director of Poetry@Tech.

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The Bear

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