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The Rumpus
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The Nervous Breakdown
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Lodestar Quarterly
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Lauren Wheeler’s debut poetry collection, In Between Places, lyrically explores family mythology and the fallibility of memory. The poems act as mile markers in a Black woman’s literal and figurative journey across decades and across the country, in a search for home in different cities—and people. From a sense of longing and displacement, the collection arrives in a place of stability, resilience, and triumph.