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Short Film Starring My Beloved’s Red Bronco: Poems Style:Paperback and leaders speak honestly andBy K. Iver Short Film Starring My Beloveds Red Bronco, selected by Tyehimba Jess for the 2022 Ballard Spahr Prize for Poetry, is an aching tribute to the power and precarity of queer love. In small town Mississippi, before the aughts, a child assigned woman and a boy forced to call himself a girl love one anotherfrom afar, behind closed doors, in motels. The child survives an injurious mother and the beast shaped men she brings home; the boy becomes a