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Elyse Fenton is the author of the poetry collection Clamor, winner of the Dylan Thomas Prize. Her second manuscript, Sweet Insurgent, won the Alice Fay di Castagnola Award from the Poetry Society of America. Born and raised in Brookline, Massachusetts, she earned a BA from Reed College and an MFA from the University of Oregon. She lives with her family in Portland, Oregon.

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    When the new pope kneels to wash
    the brown foot of a female inmate, the world
    sets its flashbulbs to rupture. Already, spring’s
    trundling out its clutter, blossoms from the new
    ornamentals manufactured to leave

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