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Valencia Robin

Valencia Robin is a poet, painter, and art administrator. Her debut poetry collection, Ridiculous Light, is the winner of Persea Books’ Lexi Rudnitsky First Book Prize in Poetry, a finalist for the 2020 Kate Tufts Discovery Award, and was named one of the best poetry books of 2019 by Library Journal.

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Poetry
Wherever he is,
may he catch a break,
in this life and the next

Poem for the Guy Down the Street

Valencia Robin

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