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Ava C. Cipri

Ava C. Cipri

September 7, 2022 by PBQ Leave a Comment

Ava C. Cipri is a non-binary queer writer, educator, and activist in Pittsburgh, PA. She is a co-founder and poetry editor of The Deaf Poets Society: An Online Journal of Disability Literature & Art. A Pushcart, Best New Poets, and Best of the Net nominee, her work appears or is forthcoming in Cimarron, WHR + Moth, and […]

Filed Under: Contributors 102, Issue 102 Tagged With: Ava C. Cipri

Ava C. Cipri: Red Phase, Day 8

September 6, 2022 by PBQ Leave a Comment

11am During workshop, everyone mute when not sharing, please. Lex reads her poem on Zoom. A distressed squawking masks her words. What’s that shrill noise? She removes her glasses, looks into the lens, my parakeet. This isn’t delightful chirping chatter, this isn’t song. The insistent screeching grows longer, louder. Trudy’s mate died…needs another companion. I’d […]

Filed Under: Issue 102, Poetry, Poetry 102 Tagged With: Ava C. Cipri

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