For Louise Glück
Gabrielle Bates
October 12, 2020
Gabrielle Bates works for Open Books: A Poem Emporium and co-hosts the podcast The Poet Salon. Her poems have appeared in The New Yorker, Poetry Magazine, and Ploughshares, and her debut collection Judas Goat is forthcoming from Tin House in 2023.
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