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Fred Kirchner

Fred Kirchner works with teens at the Dayton Metro Library, and as an Arts Educator/Poet in Residence at the Springfield Museum of Art and the Clark County Juvenile Detention Center. His chapbook, Platform of an Unacknowledged World Legislator, won the 2005 Main Street Rag Chapbook Contest. He has a lot of bicycles and calls his apartment—a curbside storefront—the Bike & Poem Shop.

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What I Learned Today

3-alarm warehouse fires
can fill a neighborhood across town
with the chemical reek of lighter fluid,
but the stench mellows into the woodsy musk

of a campfire by dawn.