Jo Bear is a poet, scholar, and educator with an MFA in poetry from North Carolina State University and an MA in Drama and Performance Studies from University College Dublin. They are a 2024 Pushcart Prize nominee and a 2023 Zoeglossia Fellow. Their poems appear or are forthcoming in Apogee Journal, ONLY POEMS, The Adroit Journal, Shō Poetry Journal, Channel, West Branch, Poetry Ireland Review, and elsewhere.

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“Another Nameless Sea” and “Dear, Dirty Dublin,”

By JO BEAR

Neither of us
take comfort from worship, but how
else is a country sated?