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Alyssa Moore

Alyssa Moore is a poet and at times a dancer. She is an MFA candidate at the Iowa Writers' Workshop.

Articles

Poetry
I had three wishes
& I did not ask
for beauty so beauty was not
what I was given
Alyssa Moore

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