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Patrick Whitfill

Patrick Whitfill has work appearing in Threepenny ReviewKenyon Review Online, and Colorado Review, among others. Currently, he lives in Spartanburg, South Carolina, and teaches at Wofford College.

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Poetry
The first joke goes: suppose I told you how
often I draw bangs on women that I haven’t
met and who don’t wear bangs?
Patrick Whitfill

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