KNEE BRACE PRESS

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Author: Joann Evan

Contributor

  • A white woman with gray hair smiling with her mouth closed at the camera.

    Joann Evan is a writer from Northeastern Pennsylvania. She has been writing since she picked up a pencil at the age of six and has been published in Pennsylvania Bards Eastern PA Poetry Review, R U Joking?, and Poets Live Fifth Anthology and forthcoming in Maybe Magazine and Blue Villa. She lives with bipolar disorder.

  • Insanity Camp

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    “I make light with a lantern made of papier-mache/It burns me as it shows the way/To a one-star resort with a welcoming glow/Leave the light on for me/Thinking makes it so.”