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"Fool's Grapes"
from Valley Voices
Angela Ball
's poems, translations, and essays have appeared or are forthcoming in Boulevard, Poetry, The Paris Review, The Atlantic Monthly, Ploughshares, The North American Review, The Partisan Review, The New Yorker, Grand Street, Field, Colorado Review, The New Republic, The Bennington Review, Threepenny Review, and elsewhere. Her sixth and most recent book of poetry is Talking Pillow (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2017). The recipient of an Individual Artist's Grant from the National Endowment for the Arts, she teaches in the Center for Writers, part of the School of Humanities at the University of Southern Mississippi in Hattiesburg, where she lives with her dogs, Miss Bishop and Boy.
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Angela Ball's Website.
May 21, 2020: "Contagion" "Some squares are really circles, Daddy said...."
February 20, 2019: "Hier Gibt es Blaugeerren" "Caption on photos of SS women auxiliaries..."
April 6, 2011: "Foolproof" "Just turn it on, when I tell you to," says God..."
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