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This week’s poem is ‘The Glorious Fellowship of Migraineurs’ by Polly Atkin, and comes from Shadow Dispatches, published by Seren Books. Click here to read it.

The presses participating in the initiative during the 2012-13 academic year are: Anvil Press, Arc Publications, BOA Editions, CB editions, Cinnamon Press, Enitharmon Press, Penned in the Margins, Seren Books, Shearsman Books, Two Rivers Press, and Worple Press.

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