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Stephanie Cawley

Stephanie Cawley is a poet from southern New Jersey. She has an MFA from the University of Pittsburgh and works teaching writing to middle schoolers and college students. 

Articles

Poetry
Yes, I did hold a plague in my pupils. Yes, I did lift up my dress and walk through fields to kill each beetle and pest. The last landscape designated protected was the swamp. The marsh and its salt, weedy tufts of grass stuck up above the flood.
Stephanie Cawley

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