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Brian Clifton

Brian Clifton is the author of the chapbooks MOT and Agape. They have work in Pleiades, Guernica, Cincinnati Review, Salt Hill, Colorado Review, The Journal, Beloit Poetry Journal, and other magazines. They are an avid record collector and curator of curiosities.

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Poetry

As a student, I stitched / a cadaver together / while my professor / said you must / be a predator . . .

Brian Clifton

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