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Kayleb Rae Candrilli

Kayleb Rae Candrilli’s memoir-in-verse, What Runs Over, (YesYes Books, 2017) chronicles their life growing up transgendered in rural Pennsylvania. They were born in Pennsylvania, and home-schooled there, and

Summering in Wildwood, NJ

by Kayleb Rae Candrilli

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in a few days, i’ll be on a beach

so bright i can see the sun through my fingers,

each thin vein lit

up blue like a heron’s leg.

this poem is not so much about a beach

as it is about arriving,

blowing stop signs

until the coast affirms

that lines are always changing,

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Poets Book of Days

June 1

New Directions in Prose and Poetry publishes William Carlos Williams' "Patterson I" in1946.

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Poetry Trivia

Question:

Jane Taylor's famous children's poem "The Star" (also known as "Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star") is a popular target for parody. Which is the best known?

Answer

"Lewis Carroll's. In Alice's Adventures in Wonderland the dormouse at the Mad Hatter's party, recites:
Twinkle, twinkle, little bat!
How I wonder what you're at!
Up above the world you fly,
Like a teatray in the sky. "

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