Cherry-Tipped Triptych

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“Cherry-Tipped Triptych” by Ariadna Maksin is the first runner-up of the 2025-26 Rejected Poetry Prize, selected by Mai Der Vang. We’re honored to share this lovely poem with you.

 

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Ariadna Maksin

Ariadna (Arina) Maksin is a poet and neurobiology researcher. The founding editor of Stemlit Review and an alumna of the Iowa Young Writers Studio, her work is published or forthcoming in Scapegoat Review, Eunoia Review, and Taipei Poetry Collective, among others. She splits her life between the West and East Coast, and her time dissecting either diction or brains.

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