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Stranger and Stranger

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A shelf for poetic attention.

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About Elaine Bleakney

Poet. I write Stranger and Stranger here. Recent poems in Harp & Altar, the Yale Review. Essays: The Believer, Literary Hub, Kenyon Review.

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