Lucien Darjeun Meadows's poetry has appeared in various literary journals, including West Branch, Hayden's Ferry Review, and Quarterly West. An Association of Writers and Writing Programs Intro Journals Project winner, he has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize and has received awards from the Academy of American Poets and the Kratz Center for Creative Writing. He holds a master of fine arts in creative writing from Southern Illinois University in Carbondale, and now lives in Fort Collins, CO, where he is grants coordinator at the Fort Collins Museum of Discovery. “Admission” © 2016 by Lucien Darjeun Meadows. Contact author: [email protected].

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