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"The American Gun is a poem in ten parts delving into the modern phenomenon of mass shootings in the United States. It's a narrative account of a young teacher in NYC wrestling with the reality of American gun culture. From the classroom to the subway platform, The American Gun is a meditation on tragedy and what it means to live in a country where domestic terrorism is a constant threat. Femiani's poetry illuminates what the media cannot: the residuals of monumental loss, months and years after the fact, in the face of an unyielding ""democracy"" unable to protect the lives of its citizenry and its children."

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Jessica Femiani is the granddaughter of immigrants. She received her PhD in English at Binghamton University (SUNY). Her poems and essays have been published in the Paterson Literary Review, Labor: Studies in Working-Class History, The Italian American Review, #MeToo, Anch'io, and Mom Egg Review. She lives in Binghamton, New York, is an adjunct lecturer at SUNY Oneonta, where she teaches composition and creative writing.

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