Today's poem is
"The Mechanical Eves"
from The Southern Review
Rebecca Morgan Frank
is the author of Oh You Robot Saints! (Carnegie Mellon, 2021), Sometimes We're All Living in a Foreign Country (2017), The Spokes of Venus (2016), and Little Murders Everywhere (2012), a finalist for the Kate Tufts Discovery Award. Her poems have appeared in The New Yorker, American Poetry Review, 32 Poems, Ploughshares, and elsewhere. She is co-founder and editor of the online literary journal Memorious.
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