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Kristin Abraham

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Flint, Michigan, The United States

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Kristin Abraham is the author of two chapbooks, Orange Reminds You of Listening(Elixir Press, 2006) and Little Red Riding Hood Missed the Bus (Subito Press, 2008); her poem “Little Red Riding Hood Missed the Bus” appears in Best New Poets 2005.

Her poetry, lyric essays, and critical essays have appeared or will appear in such places as American Letters and Commentary, LIT,The Journal,Caketrain, Columbia Poetry Review,and Court Green.

She teaches English at Laramie County Community College in Cheyenne, WY, and is the poetry editor of Spittoon.


The Midwest Writing Center Announces its 37th Annual Mississippi Valley Poetry Contest
http://www.midwestwritingcenter.org/

2010 National Judge: Louise Mathias, author of Lark Apprentice and Above All Else, the Trembling Resembles a Forest

2010 Regional Judge: Stephen Frech, author of Toward Evening and the Day Far Spent, If Not for These Wrinkles of Darkness and The Dark Villages of Childhood.

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Little Red Riding Hood Miss...
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Biting humor. Truth and pop-culture and Capitalism and life.
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Not Merely Because of the Unknown That Was Stalking Toward Them by Jenny Boully
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Louise Glück
“Like a child, the earth's going to sleep,
or so the story goes.

But I'm not tired, it says.
And the mother says, You may not be tired but I'm tired”
Louise Glück

Mahatma Gandhi
“Be the change that you wish to see in the world.”
Mahatma Gandhi

Mahatma Gandhi
“Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.”
Mahatma Gandhi

Malcolm X
“If you don't stand for something you will fall for anything.”
Malcolm X

“If edges of galaxies do not conform to physical laws we discard the laws not the edges.”
Arpine Konyalian Grenier

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