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    In The Moment
    In The Moment
    In The Moment
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    In The Moment

    By Rashaun J. Allen

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    In The Moment is a collection of twenty-four poems about resolve. About the experience of courage, heartache and love. The poems are inspired by vital moments people have in their lives. Moments that are uncomfortable. Moments that need to be untangled. Readers will go through a journey that bring these moments from the pages to the spotlight.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRoyal Blue Publishing
    Release dateDec 2, 2012
    ISBN9780983009665
    In The Moment
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    Rashaun J. Allen

    Rashaun J. Allen is the first Fulbright scholar in Stony Brook University’s MFA in Creative Writing & Literature program. A Vermont Studio Center and Arts Letters & Numbers residency recipient whose poetry chapbooks: A Walk Through Brooklyn and In The Moment became Amazon Best Sellers. He has been nominated for Sundress Publication’s 2018 Best of the Net anthology in Creative Non-Fiction and was a 2017 Steinberg Essay Contest Finalist in Fourth Genre. His work has appeared in TSR: The Southampton Review, Tishman Review, Poui, Hypertext, River Styx and among others.

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      In The Moment - Rashaun J. Allen

      In The Moment

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      Copyright

      In The Moment Copyright © 201d1 by Rashaun J. Allen.

      Cover photo by Pavel Yamakov © 123rf.com

      Edited By Jan Tramontano

      All rights reserved. No part of this Ebook may be reproduced in any form, except for the inclusion of brief quotations in a review, without permission in writing from the author or publisher.

      Published by Royal Blue Publishing at Smashwords

      Library of Congress Control Number: 2012909549

      ISBN: 978-0-9830096-1-0 (pbk)

      ISBN: 978-0-9830096-2-7 (kindle)

      ISBN: 978-0-9830096-6-5 (Epub)

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      About The Author

      Rashaun J. Allen was born in Brooklyn, New York. He graduated with a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration from SUNY Albany and obtained his Master of Business Administration from The College of Saint Rose. He is

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