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This poem is from the chapbook Materfamilias by Ann LoLordo (Finishing Line Press) and can be found at https://www.finishinglinepress.com/product/materfamilias-by-ann-lolordo/
Ann LoLordo is a writer, editor and former journalist who spent the first half of her career at The Baltimore Sun, reporting throughout Maryland and across the United States and the Middle East. She then served as the Sr. Director of Communications for a global health non-profit. Her poems have appeared in Delmarva Review, Sow’s Ear Poetry Review, Southern Poetry Review, South Dakota Review, Puerto del Sol, The MacGuffin and other literary journals. She is a co-author of the poetry collection, In the Margins: A Conversation in Poetry. A graduate of Georgetown University (BA) and Johns Hopkins University (MA), Ann lives in Crownsville with her husband and son.
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