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MIchael Carlson

Michael Carlson’s work has been published in New Ohio Review and has received support from the Kenyon Review Writer’s Workshop. He received an MFA in Creative Writing from Vanderbilt University. He teaches for a nonprofit in Nashville, The Porch TN, hosting writing workshops for local recovery communities. He can be reached on Instagram @michael_e_carlson.
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    Rocket Drive

    This is the first time I’ve witnessed a person borrow food. There are many firsts in drug addiction.

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    The Last Poem I Loved: “Prayer Before Birth” by Louis MacNeice

    After years of people telling me that I would love Louis MacNeice, last week I stumbled on “Prayer Before Birth”. In the poem, the notion of the undead, the nosferatu as plague-carrier, the underworld and incarnate evil are not supernatural…