Today's poem is
"Prelude"
from The Journal
Oliver Bendorf
is an MFA candidate at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where he holds the Martha Meier-Renk Distinguished Graduate Fellowship in Poetry. His poems are in recent or forthcoming issues of Ninth Letter, Anti-, PANK, The Journal, and others. A Lambda Literary Fellow in Poetry and recent Pushcart nominee, he also writes for Original Plumbing magazine.
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