Today's poem is
"The Shape of It"
from Black Warrior Review
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Today's poem is
"The Shape of It"
from Black Warrior Review
Wendy Xu
is the author of You Are Not Dead (Cleveland State University Poetry Center, 2013) and two chapbooks: The Hero Poems (H NGM N) and I Was Not Even Born (Coconut Books), a collaboration with Nick Sturm. Recent poems have appeared or are forthcoming in The Best American Poetry, Gulf Coast, Columbia Poetry Review, The Volta, and elsewhere. She co-edits and publishes iO: A Journal of New American Poetry/iO Books, and lives in Western Massachusetts.
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