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Christina M. Rau, The Yoga Poet, leads Meditate, Move, & Create workshops in person and online for various organizations worldwide. Her collections include How We Make Amends and the Elgin Award-winning Liberating The Astronauts. She moderates the Women’s Poetry Listserv and has served as Poet in Residence for Oceanside Library (NY) since 2020. Her poetry airs on Destinies radio show (WUSB) and appears in various literary journals like fillingStation and The Disappointed Housewife while her prose has appeared in Punk Monk Magazine and Reader’s Digest. During her downtime, she watches the Game Show Network.

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	The 2021 Rhysling Anthology by Alessandro Manzetti (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Linda D. Addison, Colleen Anderson (Goodreads Author) 4.67 avg rating — 18 ratings — published 2021	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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Mr. Palomar (English and Italian Edition)

by Italo Calvino

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