Anders Carlson-Wee is the author of DISEASE OF KINGS, forthcoming from W.W. Norton in October 2023. He is also the author of THE LOW PASSIONS (W.W. Norton, 2019), a New York Public Library Book Group Selection, and DYNAMITE (Bull City Press, 2015), winner of the Frost Place Chapbook Prize. His work has appeared in The Paris Review, Harvard Review, BuzzFeed, American Poetry Review, Ploughshares, Virginia Quarterly Review, The Sun, The Southern Review, and many other publications, including several issues of Rattle. The recipient of fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, Poets & Writers, the Camargo Foundation, Bread Loaf, Sewanee, and the Napa Valley Writers’ Conference, he is the winner of the Poetry International Prize.

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Write a haibun that mentions time.

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Pick an inanimate object and trace the evolution of your relationship with it throughout your life. Title it with the name of that object.

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