Danielle Mckinney, Mercy (detail), featured in AGNI 103
Briar and Rose
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Matthew Buckley Smith
Matthew Buckley Smith is the author of Dirge for an Imaginary World, winner of the 2011 Able Muse Book Award. His poems have appeared in Beloit Poetry Journal, AGNI, Harvard Review, The Threepenny Review, and The Best American Poetry. He lives in Carrboro, North Carolina, with his wife and daughter. (updated 9/2015)
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