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It's that time of the year again! Submit your poetry to us for your chance to be featured in Minnesota's Best Emerging Poets 2019 -- https://t.co/gm9Mac1uGT

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An excerpt from “The Love Poem I’ve Been Waiting For,” by Grace Larson, as featured in America’s Emerging Poets 2018: Illinois, Minnesota, and Wisconsin https://t.co/eTVJ4WLCbg

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An excerpt from “Victoria,” by Justin M Thompson, as featured in America’s Emerging Poets 2018: Illinois, Minnesota, and Wisconsin https://t.co/eTVJ4WLCbg

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An excerpt from “Bitter, Old and New,” by Lauren Nicole Schwabe Jordan, as featured in America’s Emerging Poets 2018: Illinois, Minnesota, and Wisconsin https://t.co/eTVJ4WLCbg

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An excerpt from “Work,” by Neese Parker, as featured in America’s Emerging Poets 2018: Illinois, Minnesota, and Wisconsin https://t.co/eTVJ4WLCbg

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An excerpt from “I Didn’t Write You a Song,” by Jamie Jennissen, as featured in America’s Emerging Poets 2018: Illinois, Minnesota, and Wisconsin https://t.co/eTVJ4WLCbg

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An excerpt from “Mid-Air,” by Annie Burdick, as featured in America’s Best Emerging Poets: https://t.co/LRqioa60CL

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An excerpt from “Fall for You,” by Max Mlinar, as featured in America’s Best Emerging Poets: https://t.co/LRqioa60CL

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An excerpt from “Mid-Air,” by Annie Burdick, as featured in America’s Best Emerging Poets: https://t.co/LRqioa60CL

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An excerpt from “trying too hard,” by Cory Alford, as featured in America’s Best Emerging Poets: https://t.co/LRqioa60CL

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An excerpt from “Mid-Air,” by Annie Burdick, as featured in America’s Best Emerging Poets: https://t.co/LRqioa60CL

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From "trying too hard," by Cory Alford, as featured in America’s Best Emerging Poets: https://t.co/Wb0bMWZTwg

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"It is hard for me to let her go.
I want to chain her up,
settle her down,
tell her no.
But I can’t,
and I never will."
- Letting Her Go, Payton West

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"But Death is not a greedy soul
For corpses dug from dirty graves
Reanimate and stalk the Earth,
Raise greening limbs up to the sun,
And drink forth from the heavens."
- Harvester, N. Matthew

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"Unravel me
Slowly
Find the string
Between my navel and my collarbone
And pull
Until I start to spin
Until my chest is moving faster
Than my head"
- Unravel Me, Ilia Widman

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"These cows aren’t going to milk themselves.
As the milk machines turn on,
The cows line up single-file.
Closing the rusted gate shut,
The day has officially begun."
- Farm-Living City Boy, Christian Ndekwe

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"Find me in the shadows
resting on the lowest branch
with my fingertips surprising the dew
not yet meant to be discovered."
- Lucency, Monica Synstelien

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"Hair is shameful
Youthful smoothness is what we look for here
I have one face, concealed with foundation and BB cream
And color corrector and contour, until it is no longer my face
It is a mask"
- Woman, Nina

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"The directions said
to plant lilacs in my ribcage
but instead you plucked them
dried petals to the wind"
- Gardens stop growing if you don’t water them,
Alexandra Schaub

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"Lulled into listen—
trees whimper,
slender bows drawn,
wind mourning
through branches entwined,
creaking
timbre."
- Records in the Playroom, Rebekah Pahr