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Shireen Madon

Shireen Madon
Shireen Madon holds degrees from Columbia University and New York University. Her work is published or forthcoming in Indiana Review, Prairie Schooner, Poetry Northwest, Hayden’s Ferry Review, Wildness, The Journal, and The Margins, among others. A Kundiman fellow, she has been the recipient of awards from Poets & Writers and the Academy of American Poets.

Ipanema

By Shireen Madon
Poetry•Vol. XXX No. 2 (Summer 2017)

Along the beach lie bodies of the finest grade of skin, the surfers following a far- flung deity. Yet the stranger fauna looks back at me from the hotel mirror. My bed becomes a cage of white birds, red throated. The luggage of my child holds a blackness I can’t reflect. This life, cousin to… [Read More]

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