The Narrow Mind

It lives in a small backwater, and it doesn't know
Much more than dragonflies and darning needles,
The plash and galump of a frog. What it wonders
Is how do I get through another day.
It feeds on what's been whispered to it
In secret meetings at dusk, and what's proclaimed
By flights of crows. It likes
Lying on a sunlit log or wading
To shore with its fellows—where
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—Dick Allen, from Ode to the Cold War

Lia Purpura is interviewed in Orion.

The Lambda Literary Foundation has awarded Brian Leung its Outstanding Mid-Career Novelist Prize.

T Fleischmann's Syzygy, Beauty is reviewed in the Star Tribune.

05-28-2012
You Have Given Me a Country

Spalding University 845 South Third St. Louisville, Kentucky 40203
May 28-31 BFA Visiting-Writer-in-Residence


http://www.spalding.edu/

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