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Rape Joke

Poet Patricia Lockwood, whose new collection titled "Motherland Fatherland Homelandsexuals" was recently published.

Snark and sexting are making Patricia Lockwood a young poetry star

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Poet Patricia Lockwood wrote “Rape Joke,” perhaps the first poem in history to go viral. She’s also popular on Twitter for her “sexts,” inspired by the Anthony Weiner scandal, which are surreal and impossible come-ons that mock the over-sexualization of modern life.

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