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Jessy Randall

Colorado Springs, Colorado

Jessy Randall is the author of the poetry collections Suicide Hotline Hold Music (Red Hen Press, 2016), There Was an Old Woman (Unicorn, 2015), Injecting Dreams into Cows (Red Hen Press, 2012) and A Day in Boyland (Ghost Road Press, 2007), a finalist for the Colorado Book Award. Her poems, poetry comics, and diagram poems have appeared in Poetry, Rattle, McSweeney's, and Asimov's, and she occasionally guest-edits the online magazine Snakeskin. She is curator of special collections at Colorado College.

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By Jessy Randall

Column 137

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