Signs of the Times

It is the fifties in suburbia. The ground's been bulldozed free of inconvenient trees and hillocks. The houses are brand new, identical, laid out in rows on streets named for birds and flowers that reside elsewhere.

Everyone is about the same age with two or three kids in the elementary school at the end of the block, the men all vets of World War II, wound a little too tight.
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—Deborah Tall, from A Family of Strangers

Ryan Van Meter's If You Knew Then What I Know Now is reviewed in Rain Taxi.

Caitlin Horrocks' This Is Not Your City is reviewed in The Kenyon Review and The Short Review.

Lydia Davis' The Cows is reviewed in Make Magazine.

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03-12-2012
Exceptions and Melancholies: Poems 1986-2006

Hamline University St. Paul, MN
7:00 pm


Kelly Krebs, Asst. Dean for Graduate Programs
kkrebs@hamline.edu
http://www.hamline.edu/cla/bfa/visiting-writers.html

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