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Miguel Barretto García

Miguel Barretto-García is a spoken word performer and neuroscientist based in St. Louis, Missouri. Their poems have appeared or have been in accepted in The Iowa Review, Poetry Northwest, & Change, Wildness, Rhino Poetry, Rattle, among others. They have previously performed in the spoken word and poetry slam circuits in Switzerland and the US, notably at the Zurich Theatre Spectacle, The Chicago Filipino American Theatre Festival, and Goodie House in St. Louis. They completed their PhD in Neuroecoconomics at the University of Zürich and they are currently a postdoctoral researcher at Washington University in St. Louis.  
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    Four Poems

    Self Portrait of Boy as Venus de Milo The way the light bounces offthe skin covers blemish and bruise. In the light, the bodyis a shiny bronze. The shadowbetween the chest gives the contour of small breasts. If notfor the…