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Thursday, July 22, 2010

Poem #11: Problems with the Dictionary

*plish*

Posted by Luke Johnson at 6:24 PM

5 comments:

Nancy Devine said...

more good work.

July 22, 2010 at 7:05 PM
Matthew said...

immaculate.

July 22, 2010 at 10:13 PM
evelyn.n.alfred said...

:-)

July 22, 2010 at 10:29 PM
Luke Johnson said...

thanks y'all!

July 23, 2010 at 1:09 PM
Melanie L Moro-Huber said...

*plash*

July 23, 2010 at 1:13 PM

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I'm the author of After the Ark (NYQ Books, 2011). My poems have appeared or are forthcoming in New England Review, Poetry Northwest, The Southern Review, The Threepenny Review, and elsewhere. My writing has been featured in Best New Poets, Huffington Post, Poetry Daily, Verse Daily,, and elsewhere. I live in Nashville, Tennessee, where I teach high school English.
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