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Courtney DuChene

Courtney DuChene is a poet, journalist, and essayist based in Philadelphia, PA. She holds an MFA from the Helen Zell Writers program at the University of Michigan. Her work has been recognized and supported by the Hopwood Awards, the Vermont Studio Center, Bread Loaf Environmental Writers’ Conference, and the Napa Valley Writers’ Conference. Her poems, essays and interviews can be found or are forthcoming in Best New Poets, Prairie Schooner, The Mississippi Review, Frontier, RHINO, the New England Review, Philadelphia Stories, Glass Mountain, The Michigan Quarterly Review, The Millions and the White Review, where she was shortlisted for the 2023 poet’s prize. She was long-listed for the 2023 Rising Poet Prize from Palette Poetry.
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    Three Poems

    Crumbs — all that’s left of my coffee cake. Plates clatter as they’re loaded in the dishwasher. Ashtrays on the bar. When Hopper painted Nighthawks he didn’t intend to evoke loneliness —a waiter, two men in suits, a woman considering…