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Elizabeth O’Brien

Elizabeth Oâ€™Brien earned an MFA in Poetry from the University of Minnesota, and her workâ€”poetry and proseâ€”has been published by New England Review, Tin House, The Rumpus, Ploughshares, Diagram, Sixth Finch, Radar Poetry, Cicada, Best New Poets 2016, and elsewhere. Her first chapbook, A Secret History of World Wide Outage, is forthcoming from ELJ Editions in 2017.

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Elizabeth O'Brien

Jun 1, 2017

Songs of Our Lives: Paul Simon’s “Me and Julio Down by the Schoolyard”

There’s you and him, and you and me. You seem to want each of us all to yourself, and that’s fine; you’re the one we both care about.
Music, Rumpus Original

Elizabeth O'Brien

Jun 30, 2016

Songs of Our Lives: Guns N’ Roses’s “Paradise City”

When people asked what I was going to do after high school, I said, “Leave town.” I wasn’t kidding. I hadn’t applied to a single college.

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Elizabeth O’Brien

Songs of Our Lives: Paul Simon’s “Me and Julio Down by the Schoolyard”

Songs of Our Lives: Guns N’ Roses’s “Paradise City”