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Daniel Lawless’s book of poetry The Gun My Sister Killed herself With and Other Poems, will be released in be Salmon Press in 2018; recent poems appear or are forthcoming in The American Journal of Poetry, Asheville Review, Cortland Review, B O D Y, The Common, FIELD, frACTalia (Romanian) Fulcrum, The Louisville Review, Manhattan Review, Marsh Hawk Review, Numero Cinq, Prairie Schooner, and other journals. He is the founder and editor of Plume: A Journal of Contemporary Poetry.