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Podcast: Electrical Symbols
By: M.C. Childs
Podcast read by: M.C. Childs
Podcast read by: Ciro Faienza
Issue: 14 January 2019

In this episode of the Strange Horizons podcast, editor Ciro Faienza presents M.C. Childs’s “Electrical Symbols”, with a reading by the poet himself.


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© Copyright 2019 By: M.C. Childs
Podcast read by: M.C. Childs
Podcast read by: Ciro Faienza
About M.C. Childs
M.C. Childs is the author of multiple poems, academic and general audience articles, a newspaper column, and award-winning urban design books including Foresight and Design, The Zeon Files, Squares, and Urban Composition.
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