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Nicole Callihan

Nicole Callihan was born in Hickory, North Carolina, raised in Oklahoma, and lives in Brooklyn, New York. Her books include SuperLoop and Henry River Mill Village, as well as, the chapbooks: Downtown, The Deeply Flawed Human, and A Study in Spring.

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Three poems: "hole", "class", and "spoon"

by Nicole Callihan November 8, 2017December 3, 2020

i'll come to understand what i've been
put here for but then i get desirous
and forget to wonder or the old man
wanders in and says boo just to scare me
and i go on the porch and shake until it rains

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Two poems: "music" and "clothes"

by Nicole Callihan August 9, 2017December 3, 2020

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