Poetry
from, I thought you said it was sound
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Stephanie GrayPoet-filmmaker STEPHANIE GRAY is the author of five collections of poetry including Shorthand and Electric Language Stars (Portable Press at Yo-Yo Labs, 2015) and A Country Road Going Back in Your Direction (Argos Books, 2015). A current LMCC resident in writing, she had a retrospective of her films at Anthology Film Archives in 2015.
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