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This poem is from the chapbook Memory Map by Tara Prakash (Finishing Line Press), and can be found at https://www.finishinglinepress.com/product/memory-map-by-tara-prakash/
Tara Prakash is the 2025 National Youth Poet Laureate Runner-Up, the 9th Youth Poet Laureate of the United States South, and the inaugural Youth Poet Laureate of Maryland. Her work has been recognized in the Scholastic Art and Writing Awards (where she received National Gold and National Silver Medals), National YoungArts Foundation, and the New York Times, and has appeared in Best American, The Lumiere Review, and The Daphne Review, among others. She has performed her poetry at The Kennedy Center, the National Press Club, the Smithsonian Institution, and other venues. You can learn more about her at taraprakashwrites.com.
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