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God Only Exists in Hell, Michigan

Two poems by Jordan Hamel

God Only Exists in Hell, Michigan

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About the Author

Jordan Hamel is an Aotearoa, New Zealand writer and performer. He is an MFA candidate at the University of Michigan on a Fulbright Scholarship. His debut poetry collection, Everyone Is Everyone Except You, was published in New Zealand by Dead Bird Books in 2022 and will be published by Broken Sleep in the UK in 2024. He is also the co-editor of No Other Place to Stand, an anthology of NZ and Pacific climate change poetry from Auckland University Press (2022). He is the winner of the 2023 Sonora Review Poetry Competition, judged by Maggie Smith and the 2023 New Writers UK Poetry Prize. He was the runner-up in the 2023 American Literary Review Poetry Contest. Recent work can be found or is forthcoming in POETRY, Pleiades, American Literary Review, Gulf Coast, New Delta Review, and elsewhere.

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