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Today's poem is "DRAWBRIDGE + MOAT"

from Black Warrior Review

Natalie Louise Tombasco was selected for the Best New Poets anthology 2021 by Kaveh Akbar, Copper Nickel's Editor's Prize, and as a published finalist for Cutbank Books chapbook contest with her manuscript titled COLLECTIVE INVENTIONS (2021). She is a PhD candidate at Florida State University and serves as a Poetry Editor of the Southeast Review. Recent work can be found in Gulf Coast, Diode Poetry Journal, The Cincinnati Review, and Mississippi Review, among others. Her debut collection has been chosen as a finalist and honorable mention for Persea's Lexi Rudnisky Prize, the Philip Levine Poetry Prize, The Journal's Wheeler Prize, and the Wisconsin Poetry Series' Brittingham & Felix Pollak Prizes.

Other poems on the web by Natalie Louise Tombasco:
"Dyker Heights, 2017"
"The Descent Into Dickinson"
Two poems
"Dream Vision of Theodore Roethke"
"Brief List of Things That Will Kill Me: Being Favored"
"The Girl with the Appetite of an Ogre"
"Portrait of a Queen with Dirty Martini, Covered in Cat Hair"
"[king hunt 5.1]"
"STEPMOTHERā€™S MONOLOGUE: JUNIPER + CHEST OF APPLES"
"Dream Vision of Frank O'Hara"
"PARKS!"
"DONUT SHOP PANTOUM"
"Granpa in a Jar"
"Ghosthood"
"[king hunt 1.1]"

Natalie Louise Tombasco's Website.

Natalie Louise Tombasco on Twitter.

About Black Warrior Review:

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Poetry Editor: S. Whitney Holmes

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