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It's that time of the year again! Submit your poetry to us for your chance to be featured in North Carolina's Best Emerging Poets 2019 -- https://t.co/urZ7qTgjmQ

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An excerpt from “Another Question,” by Faye Goodwin, as featured in America’s Best Emerging Poets: https://t.co/jeq9ZuxNdu

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An excerpt from “Moments of Eventide,” by Aedan Hannon, as featured in America’s Best Emerging Poets: https://t.co/jeq9ZuxNdu

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An excerpt from “Amorphous,” by Lauren Bunce, as featured in America’s Best Emerging Poets: https://t.co/jeq9ZuxNdu

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An excerpt from “Villain,” by Emily Haaksma, as featured in America’s Best Emerging Poets: https://t.co/jeq9ZuxNdu

[Z Publishing North Carolina @NC__Writers]

An excerpt from “Another Question,” by Faye Goodwin, as featured in America’s Best Emerging Poets: https://t.co/jeq9ZuxNdu

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An excerpt from “Spin,” by Anna Mukamal, as featured in America’s Best Emerging Poets: https://t.co/jeq9ZuxNdu

[Z Publishing North Carolina @NC__Writers]

An excerpt from “Another Question,” by Faye Goodwin, as featured in America’s Best Emerging Poets: https://t.co/jeq9ZuxNdu

[Z Publishing North Carolina @NC__Writers]

Today is the day! Submit your poetry by midnight tonight for a chance to be featured in North Carolina's Best Emerging Poets 2019! Full details here: https://t.co/urZ7qTgjmQ

[Z Publishing North Carolina @NC__Writers]

From "Amorphous," a poem by Lauren Bunce, as featured in America’s Best Emerging Poets: https://t.co/OW5gYDgdEC

[Z Publishing North Carolina @NC__Writers]

From "Villain," by Emily Haaksma, as featured in America’s Best Emerging Poets: https://t.co/OW5gYDgdEC

[Z Publishing North Carolina @NC__Writers]

From "Moments of Eventide," by Aedan Hannon, as featured in America’s Best Emerging Poets: https://t.co/OW5gYDgdEC

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"This is why I left:
Think of all the people who
felt like me who did not find
the heaven they were promised.
Think of all the people still
waiting for their rapture."
- Leaving, Lauren La Melle

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"Blind, I chased the red lighter
To the bottom of my pocket,

like when I chased a red rake
around my yard of leaves,"
- A Calendar’s Appetite, Graham Horne

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"Here in this midnight hollow
Dreaming through all the noise
You braced yourself against
Never realizing what was on the way
And aren't you glad you took it on the chin
Aren't you glad you took the worst of it"
- Anadyomene Invictus, David Koppang

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"Waking I am plunged
into muggy air and tunneled greenery,
Cicadas serenading the curving country roads of Kentucky,
with its long white fences like grinning teeth."
- Piñon, Robert Dean

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"Once you’ve eaten your fill,
though,
You make your escape
down
Into the murky swamp-grasses,
wet and warm,
That conceal you"
- Vampire, Kathryn LeBey

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"I am a tin-foil figurine, contorted,
trying to learn how to love myself

a sheet freshly torn, still hopeful to
become a shape with which I can live"
- Balled Up, Anna Mukamal

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"I find my answer
Atop a sea of concrete darkness—
Chasing those spheres, I would never find the finish line
Because chasers never win."
- What Distance Does, Lauren Bunce

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"Feel the breeze coming in
Sweet smells in the wind
Sliding my soft scarf past my chin
Feeling sand between my toes
Crinkling my nose
At the tingling sensation as I go"
- Nature’s Time, Quashona Renee