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For a Place I Hate, I Invoke You Often: Featured Poetry by Hala Alyan

Today we continue our new series of poetry excerpts with a poem from clinical psychologist, novelist, and poet . Her fourth book of verse, , is full of swift lines and crisp images. “Oklahoma,” a prose poem from her

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