“Try as we might, we can’t / help believing heaven is up” In this video, Emily Van Kley performs aerial acrobatics and reads “Bodies” from her second poetry collection, Arrhythmia (Persea Books, 2022), which is featured in Page One in the January/February issue of Poets & Writers Magazine.
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