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Today's poem is "Nearness"

from Salt Hill

Tawanda Mulalu was born in Gaborone, Botswana. He is the author of Nearness (The New Delta Review, 2022) and Please make me pretty, I don't want to die (Princeton University Press, 2022). His poems appear or are forthcoming in Brittle Paper, Lana Turner, Lolwe, The New England Review, The Paris Review, A Public Space and elsewhere. He mains Ken in Street Fighter.

Books by Tawanda Mulalu:

Other poems on the web by Tawanda Mulalu:
"Miscegenation Elegy"
"Elegy"
Two poems
"Near It"
Three poems
Two poems
"After History"
"American Elegy"
"Frenzy"
"Poem About My Life Mattering"
"Argo, My Argo"
"Still Life"

Tawanda Mulalu's Website.

Tawanda Mulalu on Twitter.

About Salt Hill:

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Salt Hill Journal * Syracuse University * English Department * Syracuse, NY 13244
Poety Editors: Bridget O'Bernstein * Ally Young
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