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  "textContent": "“Next on deck is Shivani!” There aren’t many poetry spaces in Chicago where I share a name with someone else. There is typically no need for my last name on a sign-up sheet at an open mike. But at this particular open mike in 2023, as I, Shivani Kumar, stood up, so did Shivani Gupta. […]\n\nThe post Shivani Gupta’s debut poetry book centers her relationship with her mother appeared first on Chicago Reader.",
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