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This poem is from the chapbook The Pink House/ Rising Up Singing by Tanya K. Young (Finishing Line Press), and can be found at https://finishinglinepress.com/product/the-pink-house-rising-up-singing-by-tanya-k-young/
Tanya Young is recipient of first prize in the 2025 Malovrh-Fenlon Poetry Contest, sponsored by Orchard Street Press, LTD. She is a member of Wildacres Writers of Asheville, NC; Florida State Poets Association and Florida Writers Association. Her poems have been published in Kakalak, Swwim, The Well Anthology 2024, Florida Poets Cadence-2025; Florida Bards Anthology 2025 and interpreted with dance by Sarasota Contemporary Dance Studio. She lives in Sarasota, Florida where she co-founded Bards on the Bay—an outside poetry venue that brings poets together for reading of original works.
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