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Joshua McKinney on Verse Daily

January 7, 2025

Sad Animal cover

We love seeing Gunpowder poems out in the world! Thank you, Verse Daily, for sharing a poem from Joshua McKinney’s Sad Animal. The book is the winner of our inaugural John Ridland Poetry Prize. Congratulations, Josh!

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