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Donna Vorreyer
Outside, the terrain glistens with the lie
of snow, the moon's neon vacancy.

A hare peeks from behind the white,
its softness startling as a mirror.

I wrestle my limbs to stillness,
soothe the pink cheek of fever.

I mark a line through each day I do not
do violence to myself with my tongue.

A practice I have yet to master.
There are so few lines. So much white.
from the journal COLORADO REVIEW
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"Five High School Students Named National Student Poets"

"The student poets, each of whom receive $5,000, will help oversee workshops, readings and other activities. Previous poets have appeared at the White House and Lincoln Center among other venues. Kallan McKinney is a queer and trans poet from Norman, Oklahoma, who uses writing to explore identity and communication. Gabriella Miranda, a rising high school senior in Salt Lake City, credits her passion for words to her visits to the library and the bedtime stories her family read to her."

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What Sparks Poetry:
Jacob Sheetz-Willard on Srikanth Reddy's Voyager


"Reading Reddy's collection, for me, has a similar effect. In repeating Waldheim's language but stripping back the rhetoric, he insists on a distinction between sound and significance—what's said and what we can intuit beneath the public performance of language. His poetry offers a lesson in the imaginative potential of erasure and the politics of silence."
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