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Laura Wetherington interviews Mia You about “Festival.”

To Unfix Our Fixed Ideas Laura Wetherington interviews Mia You about “Festival.” By Laura Wetherington May 21, 2025 Poetry Festival by Mia You . Belladonna* Collaborative , 2025. 136 pages. Buy on Bookshop.org Did you know LARB is a reader-supported nonprofit? LARB publishes daily without a paywall as part of our mission to make rigorous, incisive, and engaging writing on every aspect of literature, culture, and the arts freely accessible to the public. Help us continue this work with your tax-deductible donation today! Donate WHEN I TRIED to choose a poem from Mia You’s new poetry book, Festi

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