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MICHELLE DETORIE lives in Santa Barbara, California, where she edits Hex Presse and is the Director of the Communication Lab at Santa Barbara City College. She is the author of numerous chapbooks including Fur Birds (Insert Press), How Hate Got Hand (eohippus labs), and Bellum Letters (Dusie). In 2007, Michelle was awarded a National Endowment for the Arts literature fellowship, and in 2010 she won a direct-to-artist grant from the Santa Barbara Arts Collaborative for her public art project, The Poetry Booth. AFTER-CAVE (Ahsahta Press) is her first full-length collection.

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UNITED STATES OF GRIEF Before there are no sanctuaries. Without birds Flying through, the soul is open territory For wounding. We scraped the lakes dry Milking salt for our tears, fasting our hand To plates to placate the glacial creatures Living in papers, their occult markings making Promises they never keep. We build A new home with yesteryear singing in our ears While these are old fevers burn in the roads and rivers. What's built on thieving. If you want to live, sign This petition. If you want to love, come on.
MICHELLE DETORIE lives in Santa Barbara, California, where she edits Hex Presse and is the Director of the Communication Lab at Santa Barbara City College. She is the author of numerous chapbooks including Fur Birds (Insert Press), How Hate Got Hand (eohippus labs), and Bellum Letters (Dusie). In 2007, Michelle was awarded a National Endowment for the Arts literature fellowship, and in 2010 she won a direct-to-artist grant from the Santa Barbara Arts Collaborative for her public art project, The Poetry Booth. AFTER-CAVE (Ahsahta Press) is her first full-length collection.
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