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How difficult to be a rare animal, the pressure to stay alive. Even colors find themselves in danger, blue eyes that should have died out by now, spare in their occurrence to begin with but passed on against the odds.

Natalie Shapero, “Invocation: The Third and Fourth Generation of Them That Hate Me,” from No Object

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The god I answer to is different from the god I started with

Natalie Shapero, from “Admonishment” in No Object

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The Dollhouse Presents: Natalie Shapero

Natalie Shapero is the author of No Object (Saturnalia, 2013). Her poems have appeared in The Believer, The New Republic, Poetry, The Progressive, and elsewhere. She writes and teaches at Kenyon College, where she is a Kenyon Review Fellow.

You can listen to Natalie read her poem "Your Other Heart" here, and we highly recommend this interview at HTMLGiant which includes references to Springsteen, the federal effort to convert the U.S. to the metric system, Abraham Lincoln, dogs covered in blankets, and more.

Please join us this Friday for the brilliant Natalie Shapero at The Dollhouse #23!

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