James Dickson teaches English and creative writing at Germantown High School, just outside of Jackson, Mississippi, where he lives with his wife and son. His poems, book reviews, and essays have appeared in The Common, Ruminate, The Louisiana Review, Spillway, Slant, Poetry Quarterly, and McSweeney's, among other publications, and his debut poetry collection, Some Sweet Vandal (Kelsay Books), was published in 2022. “Songbird” © 2024 by James Dickson. Contact the author on X: @SomeSweetVandal.

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