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Sam Cha is a poet, teacher, editor, and translator. His work has appeared in, or is forthcoming from, several places, including apt, Anderbo, Better, Best New Poets 2016, decomP, DIAGRAM, Memorious, Missouri Review, Rattle, and RHINO. He’s a poetry editor at Radius. He lives and writes in Cambridge.
If you die you are by definition not a reader.
This is the immortality afforded by literature.
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