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Poem Where Every Bird Is a Drone

By Tarik Dobbs
"Poem Where Every Bird Is A Drone": Concrete poem shaped like a tree, using repetition of the word "bird." It is positioned above a 9-line prose poem.

Source: Poetry (May 2021)
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Poem Where Every Bird Is a Drone

By Tarik Dobbs
About this Poet
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Tarik Dobbs is a writer, an artist, and a 2022 Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Fellow. Their poems appear in the Best New Poets and Best of the Net anthologies as well as in Guernica and in Poetry magazine. Dobbs helps run poetry.onl...

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