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NORTH CAROLINA L I T E R A R Y RE V I E W
Winter 2023
2022 JAMES APPLEWHITE POETRY PRIZE SEMIFINALIST BY MORROW DOWDLE
Brow “I am my own muse, the subject I know best.”—Frida Kahlo simplistic image on a bookmark the artist’s head a quote beneath meant to inspire freedom then why is she not free face stripped of its integrity eyebrows divided by a clean gap edited without her consent reviewed against her preference she alone has rights to the dream of herself emblazoned with that long brush of black
MORROW DOWDLE has been published in numerous journals and anthologies and was a Pushcart Prize nominee in 2018 and 2020, as well as a Best of the Net nominee in 2020. She edits and critiques poetry for Sunspot Literary Review and is an organizer of the Living Poetry collective based in the North Carolina Triangle. She works as a physician assistant in mental health and lives in Hillsborough, NC.