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Carly Joy Miller is the author of the forthcoming Ceremonial, selected by Carl Phillips as the winner of the 2017 Orison Prize for Poetry, and the forthcoming chapbook Like a Beast, winner of the 2016 Rick Campbell Prize. Her work has appeared in The Adroit Journal, Blackbird, Gulf Coast, West Branch and elsewhere. She is a contributing editor for Poetry International and a founding editor of Locked Horn Press.
My mother told me I live
like a beast and like a beast
I will die. So goes the omen:
my family tree rooted in animal
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