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  • Precedented Parroting by Barbara Tran Header, text of book title and author's name over black background, with Open Book logo below. Graphic white waves crashing on border images on either side of text section.
    Precedented Parroting by Barbara Tran Header, text of book title and author's name over black background, with Open Book logo below. Graphic white waves crashing on border images on either side of text section.
    February 08, 2024

    Read an Excerpt from Precedented Parroting by Acclaimed Poet Barbara Tran

    Pushcart Prize winner Barbara Tran has seen her poetry published in some of the most formidable literary journals in the world, including The New Yorker, The Paris Review, and Ploughshares, and we're ...

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