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Christine Poreba

Christine Poreba says that although she has received poetry awards from the Atlantic and the Potomac Review in recent years, she has never gotten over the excitement of winning first place in a national Shakespeare competition in high school. She lives in Tallahassee, Florida.

— From December 2010
Poetry

Without Tending

Just down the road a row of basil stands tight / in plastic bags, a line of buoys in a frigid sea, / while our yard lies open in the bitter cold.

December 2010
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