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Yasmine Ameli

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Yasmine Ameli teaches creative writing through the Loft Literary Center, and her work has appeared or is forthcoming in POETRY, Ploughshares, and Black Warrior Review. She lives in Shrewsbury, Massachusetts.

— From April 2022
Poetry

I Pledge Allegiance To The Republic

Every morning the public school chooses a student to lead us in patriotic worship over the intercom. I stand before my classroom flag and count my heartbeats. At recess I draw stars and stars.

April 2022
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