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Happy birthday to poet Michelle Bonczek Evory!

September 30, 2025

Michelle’s The Ghosts of Lost Animals, bronze medalist in the Independent Publishing Book Awards, was selected by the legendary Thomas Lux for the Barry Spacks Poetry Prize.

Lux wrote “The poems in this book are cool (as in controlled) and very hot (as in fearless). There is a rare precision here (as in observations of the human), and most of all there is a loaded (as in Emily’s loaded gun) imagination finding its full voice. This is a splendid first book.”

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