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Maya C. Popa

Maya C. Popa is the author of three collections of poetry, If You Love That Lady (Norton ’26); Wound is the Origin of Wonder (Norton ’22); and American Faith (Sarabande ’19). The Poetry Reviews editor of Publishers Weekly, she is the founder of Conscious Writers Collective, a year-round literary campus for writers seeking craft, community, and continuity.  
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    If You Love That Lady

    We were, I thought, as Karl Barth said about Mozart’s music, drawing weight and significancefrom the yes at our center that overpowered and contained a no.A bow rubbed against an ancient string. Thunder caught between atmosphere and earth, windows struck…