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Tuesday, May 24, 2022

UVALDE TEXAS MAY 24, 2022

by Alan Catlin




19 children 
and one teacher
dead

because one
elementary
school shooting
wasn't enough


Alan Catlin has published dozens of chapbooks and full-length books, including the chapbook Three Farmers on the Way to a Dance (Presa Press), a series of ekphrastic poems responding to the work of German photographer August Sander who did portraits of Germans before, during, and after both World Wars.