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Karese Burrows is a poet from The Bahamas. She is the author of This Is How We Lost Each Other (Platypus Press), winner of the 2017 Platypus Press Celestial Bodies Poetry Contest, and the final book in the Celestial Bodies Poetry Series. Her poetry has been curated by Eunoia Review, Kingdoms In The Wild, The Rising Phoenix Review, Harpoon Review, L'Ephemere Review, Penstrike Journal and Words Dance Publishing.
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