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Finally Writing the Poem

By Tarik Dobbs
It
is
the
poem
where
an
intelligence
agency
kills
my
jiddo
in
his
sleep.
Source: Poetry (January 2023)
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Finally Writing the Poem

By Tarik Dobbs
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Tarik Dobbs is a writer, an artist, and a 2022 Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Fellow. Their poems appear in the Best New Poets and Best of the Net anthologies as well as in Guernica and in Poetry magazine. Dobbs helps run poetry.onl...

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  • Region:
    • Middle East
    • U.S., Midwestern
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