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Ashleigh Young

Ashleigh Young is the author of two poetry collections, Magnificent Moon (2012) and How I Get Ready (2019), and the essay collection Can You Tolerate This? (2016).

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Who are you, Jerry?

Essay on Sunday: Something that wasn’t the moon

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The Sunday Essay: Jerry

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The Sunday Essay: My dreams on antidepressants

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Breaking verse: There is a new editor of the Friday Poem

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Fried Chicken

Lockdown letters #26, Ashleigh Young: On celery soup and KFC skin

Bread

Lockdown letters #21, Ashleigh Young: Avoiding the loaves

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Lockdown letters #16, Ashleigh Young: On going for a walk

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Lockdown letters #11, Ashleigh Young: Reaching for the cherries

Red deer (Cervus elaphus)

Lockdown letters #6, Ashleigh Young: I keep thinking about the beast man