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Jonny Teklit
Jonny Teklit is the recipient of the 2019 Aliki Perroti and Seth Young Most Promising Young Poet Award from the Academy of American Poets. His work has appeared in
The New Yorker
,
The Adroit Journal
,
Catapult
, and elsewhere.
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Black Flamingo
A poem for Wednesday
Jonny Teklit
June 22, 2022
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