©2015 Sandra Simonds

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Thanks to the editors of the American Poetry Review, Granta, Lana Turner: A Journal of Poetry and Opinion, Ploughshares, Columbia Poetry Review, The Awl, Colorado Review, Poets.org, Boston Review, Fence, OMG, Catch-up, and Pinwheel where these poems first appeared.

“I Grade Online Humanities Tests” was in included in the Best American Poetry 2014 edited by Terrance Hayes and “Similitude at Versailles” was included in the Best American Poetry 2015 edited by Sherman Alexie.

Some lines in “The Lake Ella Variations” are riffs on poems by Brian Ang and Carol Snow. Much gratitude to them both.