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Joseph Cuomo, who lives in New York, is a poet, as well as a former journalist and public radio host. He has produced an award-winning public radio documentary on American Fundamentalism, Ronald Reagan and the Prophecy of Armageddon, broadcast in the United States, Canada, and Australia. His work has also appeared in the New Yorker Online and Don’t Tell Mama!: The Penguin Book of Italian American Writing.
in 1989 you walk the main road to /
Tiananmen when the inexplicable /
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