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Current Issue • Vol. XLVIII No. 1 Poetry |

Two Thousand Miles Away

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Prince Bush is a poet from Nashville whose poems appear in The Believer, The Cortland Review, The Drift, and elsewhere. He received a fellowship from the Bucknell Seminar for Undergraduate Poets while earning his BA in English as an Erastus Milo Cravath Presidential Scholar at Fisk University. Bush earned his MFA in poetry from the University of Iowa Writers’ Workshop, where he was a Truman Capote Literary Trust Fellow. He is currently a Yates Fellow and a PhD student in Creative Writing at the University of Cincinnati.

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