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Free Verse Editions Poetry Reading May 7, 2023

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We are pleased to announce the newest titles accepted for publication by Free Verse Editions in late 2023.
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Attending to student writing is still a radical act in composition studies. Inventing the Discipline tends exclusively to student compositions, asking how we might read them, what we might make of them in the classroom, how we might value them, and to what ends.