Andrea Fry’s third collection of poetry, Pawn Shop of Coincidence, will be published this year
(Grolier Poetry Press). She has published two previous collections, Poisons & Antidotes in 2021
(Deerbrook Editions) and The Bottle Diggers in 2017 (Turning Point Press). Her poems have appeared
in Alaska Quarterly Review, Annals of Internal Medicine, Barrow Street, Cimarron Review, Spoon River
Poetry Review, The Sun and Women’s Review of Books, among others. Andrea first spent twenty years in
technology marketing and then changed careers. She worked as a cancer nurse practitioner for seventeen
years, most recently at Memorial Sloan Kettering in New York City. Now retired and living with her
husband and two cats in Boston, she is a member of the New England Poetry Club and serves on the Grolier
Poetry Bookshop board in Cambridge, MA.
Let’s just say, these guys
are real professionals.
Clean-shaven.
Even and odd dots
symmetrical. They
convey confidence
probability is alive and well
under their control.
Like slick barkers
who don’t over-promise,
their beveled squares
display aplomb, say—
stick with them.
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