Swimming

Water was a way of forgetting. The very blueness cast its spell, drawing her away from remembering. Helen wasn't much of a swimmer but it didn't matter because swimming wasn't the point. As soon as she had stretched out into the irresistible length of pool, the water, warmed by summer heat, took on the quality of skin. Sometimes she just floated.

In the water it was easy to forgot she even
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—Alyce Miller, from Water: Nine Stories

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.

06-05-2012
You Have Given Me a Country

Kentucky Great Writers Series Carnegie Center for Literacy and Learning 251 West Second Street Lexington, Kentucky 40507
7:30 pm Reading from You Have Given Me a Country and Same Sun Here With Cynthia Ellingsen and Jeff Worley


ccll1@carnegiecenterlex.org
(859) 254-4175
http://carnegiecenterlex.org/events/kentucky-great-writers-series/

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