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Jessica Poli

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Jessica Poli is the author of Red Ocher, which was a finalist for the Miller Williams Poetry Prize. Originally from Pennsylvania, she currently lives in Lincoln, Nebraska.

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Average rating: 4.64 · 59 ratings · 12 reviews · 7 distinct works • Similar authors

	Red Ocher 4.73 avg rating — 26 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
	The Egg Mistress 4.56 avg rating — 16 ratings — published 2013 — 2 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
	Alexia 4.20 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 2015	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
	More in Time: A Tribute to Ted Kooser by Jessica Poli (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Marco Abel (Editor), Timothy Schaffert (Goodreads Author) (Editor) 4.75 avg rating — 4 ratings — 2 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
	Glassland 4.75 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 2014	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
	Canyons 4.75 avg rating — 4 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
	Salt Hill 34 by Emma DeMilta (Editor), Jessica Poli (Goodreads Author) (Editor) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2015	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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Behold

by Shara McCallum

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The Edge of Space-Time: Particles, Poetry, and the Cosmic Dream Boogie

by Chanda Prescod-Weinstein

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The Trouble with Loving Poets and Other Essays on Failure

by Elizabeth Zaleski (Goodreads Author)

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“The world is everything that is the case.
And in the second place because.
Did I throw the most important thing perhaps, by accident, away?”
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