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Jessica McClure, After the Well

Copyright © 2025 by Elizabeth Lindsey Rogers. Originally published in Poem-a-Day on November 25, 2025, by the Academy of American Poets.

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Poem-a-Day is the original and only daily digital poetry series featuring over 250 new, previously unpublished poems by today’s talented poets each year. Randall Mann is the Guest Editor of August. Read or listen to a Q&A with Mann about his curatorial process, and learn more about the 2025 Guest Editors. Support Poem-a-Day.  

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