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Chris Green has placed poems in Tampa Review, Poetry Ireland Review, Rhino, and International Quarterly. He earned his Master's degree in British and American Literature from the University of Utah and now teaches at Columbia College in Chicago.
Originally appeared in Poetry magazine.
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