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Mike LalaMIKE LALA lives in Brooklyn, where he co-curates Fireside Follies and is Assistant Poetry Editor at Washington Square. Recent work appears or is forthcoming in Fence, RHINO 2013, DIAGRAM, Artifice, The Awl, and chapbooks from Knickerbocker Circus (2010) and [sic] Press (2011). More at mikelala.com.
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