Needlepoint

As I lay in my childhood bed in Los Angeles, religiously following the step-by-step directions in the needlepoint kit, my mother seemed to be always washing dishes in the kitchen down the hall—the water constantly running, the clank of silverware in the sink. Where did so many dishes come from? I think she sensed I a little ashamed in front of her; before I was rushed to the hospital, she was the one to find me collapsed in the
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—Brenda Miller, from Season of the Body

Mark Jarman is interviewed by the Savannah Morning News.

Lia Purpura's Rough Likeness is reviewed in the Minneapolis Star Tribune.

The 2012 Kathryn A. Morton and Mary McCarthy contests are now open for submission! Click here to submit your manuscript electronically.

02-16-2012
Rough Likeness

Writing House Interlochen Center for the Arts 4000 Highway M-137 Interlochen, MI 49643
7:30 pm Reading from Rough Likeness


http://presents.interlochen.org/events/lia-purpura-guest-artist-reading

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