Hannah Emerson — Keep Yourself at the Beginning of the Beginning
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A poem inviting us to discover our brilliance and our nothingness. Both true. Both vital.
Hannah Emerson is the author of The Kissing of Kissing. She is also the author of a chapbook, You Are Helping This Great Universe Explode. Emerson is a nonspeaking autistic writer whose work has appeared in BOMB Magazine, the Poetry Society of America, Literary Hub, and the Brooklyn Rail. She lives in Lafayette, New York.
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