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Posts by: Keegan Lester

Documenting Existence: Deed by Justin Wymer

By Keegan Lester

November 20th, 2020

Wymer is grappling with survival, with the cost of the duplicity of identity.

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Tags: addiction, Appalachia, Appalachian, book review, debut collection, Deed, Elixir Press, identity, Josh Bell, Justin Wymer, Keegan Lester, LGBTQ, Lyndon B. Johnson, No Planet Strikes, poems, poetry, poetry review, queer, review, Richard Siken, romanticism, rural Appalachia, Scheherazade, Silas House, transcendentalism, trauma, War on Poverty, West Virginia

Rumpus Original Poetry: Two Poems by Keegan Lester

By Keegan Lester

May 14th, 2020

The maple on the grounds of the church grew sick / years ago.

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Tags: Keegan Lester, poems, poetry, Rumpus Original Poems, Rumpus Original Poetry

Keegan Lester is the author of the collection of poetry this shouldn’t be beautiful but it was and it was all i had so i drew it. His work has been published in Ploughshares, Poem A Day, The Journal, The Boston Review, and CutBank among others and was anthologized in volume three of Bettering American Poetry.

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