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To aid in relief efforts, we're dedicating our North Carolina Music Issue to those affected.
$10 from each sale from now until 10/31 goes to the North Carolina Disaster Relief Fund.
Derrick Austin is the author of the poetry collections Tenderness, winner of the 2020 Isabella Gardner Poetry Award, and Trouble the Water. His next collection, This Elegance, is forthcoming from BOA Editions in 2026. New poems have recently appeared in the Kenyon Review, the Yale Review, and the Sewanee Review.
