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Jen Town’s poetry has appeared or is forthcoming in Mid-American Review, Cimarron Review, Epoch, Third Coast, Iron Horse Literary Review, Lake Effect, The Literary Review, Crab Orchard Review, and others. She earned her MFA in Poetry from The Ohio State University in 2008. Her first book, The Light of What Comes After, was published in April 2018 by Bauhan Publishing.

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Romantic Outlaws: The Extraordinary Lives of Mary Wollstonecraft and Her Daughter Mary Shelley

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Cunning Folk: Life in the Era of Practical Magic

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“...in the face of all dangers, in what may seem a godless region, we move forward through the agencies of love and art.”
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“There are those fortunate hours when the world consents to be made into a poem.”
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“War is what happens when language fails.”
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“Another belief of mine: that everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise.”
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“If you knew what was going to happen, if you knew everything that was going to happen next—if you knew in advance the consequences of your own actions—you'd be doomed. You'd be ruined as God. You'd be a stone. You'd never eat or drink or laugh or get out of bed in the morning. You'd never love anyone, ever again. You'd never dare to.”
― Margaret Atwood, The Blind Assassin

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