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Taylor Byas is a Black Chicago native currently living in Cincinnati, Ohio. She is now a second year PhD student and Yates scholar at the University of Cincinnati, and an Assistant Features Editor for The Rumpus. She was the 1st place winner of both the Poetry Super Highway and the Frontier Poetry Award for New Poets Contests. Her work appears or is forthcoming in New Ohio
Poet Heather Macpherson In Milford For Shawna Foundation Tour - Milford, MA - The upcoming reading is part of a series of poetry events between the Milford and Uxbridge libraries supported by the Shawna Foundation.
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You need to drink more water. My head snaps up — a little fast — from picking at the paper covering the table. My nervous tic to block out the sterile smell. My doctor can’t be more than a few years older than me, definitely no more than thirty-five. I think that’s why I trust her. She’s not fresh out of med school. But she’s also not been around the block so many times that her face has lost its kindness. I shouldn’t be this restless; I’m grateful to have her. It takes years to find someone that doesn’t freak you out — especially in this case. Especially if you’re a lad...