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Featuring "Motel / Sorry" by Maryann Corbett, "Meditation at Lake Michigan" by Joy Moore,  "Christ of the Ozarks" by  Z.D. Harrod, "Juggling Jack Kerouac: Attention and the Writer’s Gaze" by Paul Pastor, and "The Hound of Heaven" by Patricia O’Donnell.

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