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Isha Camara is a writing, performance poet and visual poet from South Minneapolis. She earned her degree in Human Development and Family Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison as a First Wave Alumna. Her work has been featured or is forthcoming in Southeast Review, Muzzle Magazine, Boston Review, Wisconsin Life, and Palette Poetry.
I ain’t dead and in this form, / I can matrix my way out of your bullet.
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