• Another Theory About Love

    Mag Gabbert

    Summer 2023

    Falling asleep with the wasp still
    inside of this window.

    One of us is hungry.
    One of us has given up.

    Mag Gabbert is the author of SEX DEPRESSION ANIMALS (Mad Creek Books 2023), the chapbook The Breakup, and Minml Poems (Cooper Dillon Books 2020). She’s the recipient of a 2021 Discovery Award from 92NY’s Unterberg Poetry Center as well as fellowships from the Kenyon Review Writers Workshop, Idyllwild Arts, and Poetry at Round Top. She lives in Dallas, Texas, and teaches at Southern Methodist University.

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