“Before wanting to be a poet I did many things: worked hateful low-paying jobs, lived in a lot of group houses, took up the flute, read, drank, took drugs, found my way in and out of friendships and love relationships. My life didn’t change once I discovered poetry. But I had found my direction. I didn’t have a great aptitude––my early poems were truly terrible––but I had a calling at last. I realized that poetry was my gift. My ‘genius.'” – Kim Addonizio (from Ordinary Genius)

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“Letter from Minneapolis: Why the Rebellion Had to Begin Here” on Lithub.com, included the anthology THERE’S A REVOLUTION OUTSIDE, MY LOVE, edited by Tracy K. Smith and John Freeman from Vintage Books, published on May 11, 2021.

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Homepage photo: taken somewhere in Brooklyn, NY, circa 2014. 

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