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Today's poem is "Voicemail From My Mother"

from The Greensboro Review

Robert Lynn is a writer and attorney from Virginia. He is currently an MFA candidate at New York University, where he teaches in the undergraduate creative writing program. His debut chapbook How to Maintain Eye Contact is forthcoming from Button Poetry in 2021. His work has been featured in The Antioch Review, Blackbird, Michigan Quarterly Review, New Ohio Review and other publications. He lives in Brooklyn.

Other poems on the web by Robert Lynn:
"Luck Left Over for Those Who Lose Games of Russian Roulette"
"The Difference Between a Poem and a Joke"
"On Account of Getting His Leg Broke by New York City"
"I Wanted to be a New York Love Poem"

Robert Lynn's Website.

Robert Lynn on Twitter.

About The Greensboro Review:

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Poetry Editor: Carrie Jerrell


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