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Rebecca Black

Rebecca Black is currently a Wallace Stegner fellow at Stanford. She twice received an Academy of American Poets Award from Indiana University-Bloomington, and her poetry has appeared in New Orleans Review and Southern Poetry Review.

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Midwestern Raptures

By Rebecca Black

Winter 2004 | Poetry

Black mite over the page, furious meander
of a period untethered.
Black ant over my toes
lifts by chambers like a lock.

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The Branded Palm of Captain Walker, Abolitionist

By Rebecca Black

Winter 2004

I trace pencil lead over the photograph—the brand follows his life lines, a giant "M," and the man lives again in indelible harm, his hand raw in mine. What help across the river? Scar rising in the belly's mark, in the tide's happ [...]

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