I got a letter in July saying I was one of the 12 finalists. ... About three weeks later I found out I won. I was sort of in shock.

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She talked to the graduate students and she told us a good working ratio for a poet of acceptances into journals was if you got published in one out of 80 packets that you sent out... which is shocking and terrifying at the same time, but is just also really good to know.

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