Sheet of Glass

You run into them,
shopping, the ones who were almost too good to you—
faces tanned, hands stronger than you remember. And even though
you may have the same bag of apples, carrots, in your cart,
in "his" they look so much better.

And you think back to why, in the end, you decided
no. You were taken with his stories,
with the way he listened to
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—Stefanie Marlis, from rife

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.

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05-19-2012
Fort Red Border

W103, 1st Floor Ekstrom Library Belknap Campus University of Louisville 2301 S. Third Street Louisville, KY 40292
11:45 am Kentucky Women's Book Festival Reading from Fort Red Border and The Dark Is Here


U of L Women's Center
502.852.8976
http://louisville.edu/womenscenter/kwbf

The Children
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Syzygy, Beauty
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The 6.5 Practices of Moderately Successful Poets: A Self-Help Memoir
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Something in My Eye
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Rough Likeness
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Lia Purpura's essays are full of joy in the act of intense observation; they're also deliciously subversive and alert to the ways language gets l ... [read more]

Small Fires
by Julie Marie Wade

This is a daughter’s story. In Small Fires, Julie Marie Wade recreates the landscape of her childhood with a lacemaker’s care, then t ... [read more]

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