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Her poems have appeared in The New Quarterly, Contemporary Verse 2, Arc, Grain, PRISM,

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A cover of Solmaz Sharif's poetry collection "CUSTOMS" with the title in black bold letters on the top followed by a red cover.
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Embodied Placements

"Sharif excavates orientations of space and time, revealing a tense lucidity."

by Nanya Jhingran
May 4, 2022

Would it help you. Would you open: On Joanna Klink’s The Nightfields

"At the center of Klink’s lyric resides the tension between profound emotional intensity and profound emotional delicacy."

by Gabi Graceffo
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A Hexagon of Green and Violet Stars

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"In English, speakers are actors and objects are acted upon. A persimmon is there to be eaten. For Powhatan speakers, it just as likely might not be there since...

February 14, 2022
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