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March 28, 2016/5 Comments/in Uncategorized /by Bethany

In the mail on Saturday — two copies of the very fine new issue of The Santa Clara Review. (Click on this link to go to an on-line version.)

My poems, “Where She Lies Down,” and “In Her Dream of Winter,” appear on pages 59 and 61.

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Priscilla Long says:
March 28, 2016 at 9:29 am

Congratulations!
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cherielanglois says:
March 28, 2016 at 12:22 pm

Congrats! Beautiful poems. I love the word “cardamon”…and the spice (which I just sprinkled in my coffee). Thanks for sharing.
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Jennifer Bullis says:
March 29, 2016 at 12:54 pm

Congratulations, Bethany! I love these poems. I’m very interested in the “she” of these poems–are they part of a longer series, I wonder?
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Carolynne Harris says:
March 30, 2016 at 7:58 pm

Amazing poems, startling, deep and rich in thought and word. I pictured these lines in my mind and wondered how you ever found these thoughts and words and put them together to create such beauty?
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awritersalchemy says:
March 31, 2016 at 8:09 am

Really appreciate these comments. I’m pleased to find myself in such a good issue. And y’all make me want to work on a poem today.
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