The Emperor’s Carpet, Iran
The Metropolitan Museum of Art; Rogers Fund, 1943
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H. E. Fisher’s poetry has recently appeared in Dream Pop Journal, Yes Poetry, and Pithead Chapel. She is pursuing her MFA at City College of New York, where she was awarded the The Stark Poetry Prize in Memory of Raymond Patterson. H. E. is the editor of (Re) An Ideas Journal. She currently lives in New York’s Hudson Valley.