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By subscribing, you’ll receive a weekly newsletter including publishing updates, blog posts, links to new poems, an occasional beginner’s-guitar serenade, and pictures of my opinionated dog Luna. You’ll also get full access to the website. And, perhaps most importantly, you’ll receive new episodes of my podcast, Be True, as I drop them.

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John Tessitore has been a journalist and biographer. He has taught history and literature at colleges around Boston and directed national policy studies on education and civil justice. He serves as Co-Editor Across the Pond for The Wee Sparrow Poetry Press. His poems have appeared in a variety of books and journals. He has published several volumes of poetry, a novella, and hosts a poetry podcast, Be True, available on all major podcast platforms.