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This poem first appeared in The Atlanta Review, and can be found in the chapbook upon waking by Margaret Bleichman (Finishing Line Press) at https://finishinglinepress.com/product/upon-waking-by-margaret-bleichman/
Margaret Bleichman is a poet, queer activist, and educator with writing in Writers Resist, Atlanta Review, Poets Reading the News, Gyroscope Review, Kitchen Table Quarterly, and The Dewdrop, among others. upon waking is a Finishing Line Press Open Chapbook Competition semi-finalist and a Lefty Blondie Press First Chapbook Award finalist. Bleichman’s poems have won two Joe Gouveia Outermost Poetry awards. Many of their poems explore themes of diaspora and displacement, intergenerational trauma and resilience.
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