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Patricia Spears Jones, Senior BEI Fellow, opens the latest issue of the Ocean State Review with two of her original poems. Poem “On Roland Barthe’s Birthday” was inspired by a tweet Wayne Koestenbaum. This is the first time Patricia’s first time being the first work up in a journal.