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Laura Tanenbaum

Laura Tanenbaum is a Professor of English at LaGuardia Community College, City University of New York, where she teaches composition, literature and creative writing. She also serves as a union representative at LaGuardia. Her poetry collection Dear Mother, was published this year by Main Street Rag. Her poems and short stories have appeared in Rust & Moth, Cleaver Magazine, Aji, Rattle, and many other publications. She has published essays and book reviews for The New York Times Book Review, The New Republic, Dissent, and other venues. She lives in Brooklyn with her husband and two school-age children.
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    A Poem with Cops in It

    There shouldn’t be cops in this poem.If we can’t be abolitionist in a poem, then where?But it’s July and there are cops everywhere & yesterdaythere was a beautiful balding man on west 14th,stooping & sweating like Frank O’Hara, dead 59…