Rebecca Hazelton is the author of Fair Copy (2012), winner of the Ohio State University Press/The Journal Award in Poetry, and Vow (2013), from Cleveland State University Poetry Center. She was the 2010-11 Jay C. and Ruth Halls Poetry Fellow at the University of Wisconsin, Madison’s Creative Writing Institute; and winner of the “Discovery”/Boston Review 2012 poetry contest. Hazelton’s poems have appeared in AGNI, the Southern Review, Boston Review, Best New Poets 2011, and Best American Poetry 2013.
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The Good in the Evil World
Before the war leaned in and blew out
the candles, there were many long days
where lovers called themselves lovers
and a house was a dream but also
four walls, a roof. A father called
to his daughter to see the monarch butterflies,
pausing in their...