Award for New Poets, 3rd Place Winner: Self-Portrait No. 5 by Cynthia Manick
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We’re all very excited to share with you the winners of the 2018 Award for New Poets, selected by Victoria Chang. Today, we have “Self-Portrait No. 5” by Cynthia Manick—a lovely poem of birds and bellies and the inevitable struggle…