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Today's poem is "Poem for the Giraffe Marius"

from Crazyhorse

Christopher Kempf is the author of a chapbook, The Marilyn Letters, and her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Bat City Review, Fugue, Sixth Finch, a/ice blue review, Yemassee, and elsewhere. She lives in Missoula, Montana, where she's finishing up an MFA and serving as a poetry editor for CutBank.

Other poems on the web by Christopher Kempf:
"The Professors' Wives"
"Porn"
"Dominion"
"Call of Duty: Modern Warfare"
Four poems
"The Destruction of Tenochtitlan; or, What I Did on My Summer Vacation"
"Information Age"
"Skyping"

Christopher Kempf's Website.

Christopher Kempf on Twitter.

About Crazyhorse:

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Editor: Emily Rosko

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