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Brandon Amico is a writer whose debut collection of poems, DISAPPEARING, INC., was published in March 2019 from Gold Wake Press.

He is a 2019 National Endowment for the Arts Creative Writing Fellow as well as the recipient of a North Carolina Arts Council Regional Artist Grant and the Hoepfner Literary Award for poetry, awarded by Southern Humanities Review. His poetry can be found now or soon in journals including The Awl, The Adroit Journal, Blackbird, Booth, Copper Nickel, The Cincinnati Review, Diode, Hayden’s Ferry Review, Hunger Mountain, Kenyon Review, New Ohio Review, Sixth Finch, Slice, Waxwing, and Verse Daily, and his reviews have been featured by 32 Poems, AGNI Online, The Los Angeles Review, Mid-American Review, The Rumpus, and ...more

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	The Best American Poetry 2020 (The Best American Poetry series) by Paisley Rekdal (Editor), David Lehman (Series Editor), Julia Alvarez (Goodreads Author) 3.53 avg rating — 303 ratings — published 2020 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Disappearing, Inc. 4.54 avg rating — 28 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Heavy Feather Review 2.1 by Heavy Feather, Jeremy Behreandt, Daniel J. Cecil (Goodreads Author) it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 12 ratings — published 2013	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Kenyon Review, Nov/Dec 2018 by Kenyon Review, Brandon Amico (Goodreads Author), Tiana Clark (Goodreads Author) 3.60 avg rating — 5 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Pear Noir! (#9) by Daniel Casebeer (Editor), Samuel Ace, Brandon Amico (Goodreads Author) 4.67 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 2013	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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