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Life, perhaps, began with an asterisk;
most certainly it will end with one.
Carl Boon
Carl Boon is the author of the full-length collection Places & Names: Poems (The Nasiona Press, 2019). His poems have appeared in many journals and magazines, including Prairie Schooner, Posit, and The Maine Review. He received his Ph.D. in Twentieth-Century American Literature from Ohio University in 2007, and currently lives in Izmir, Turkey, where he teaches courses in American culture and literature at Dokuz Eylül University. You can also read his poem, An Obsessive Soliloquy, in our January issue.
Twitter: @hiway61carl