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Peggy Shumaker
Peggy Schumaker was born in 1952 in La Mesa, California, and grew up in Tucson, Arizona. She has a BA and MFA from the University of Arizona. She was Writer in Residence at the Arizona Commission on the Arts, a
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Featured Poem
Exit Glacier
When we got close enough
we could hear
rivers inside the ice
heaving splits
the groaning of a ledge
about to
calve. Strewn in the moraine
fresh moose sign—
tawny oblong pellets
Poetry Trivia
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What poet said of Jesus Christ, "He is the only God . . . And so am I and so are you"?
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