"Six Ways to Jump Off a Bridge"

Understand Blue Falls, how it got its name, how in dry years, in autumn, water slips over a flat edge, sheer and perfect, a wide liquid sheet reflecting a clear day-blue as an unraveling bolt of satin. But most years are not dry and most days are not completely blue. Not this morning, certainly, as Parker Cheung leans on the railing of the deck behind his home where he
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—Brian Leung, from World Famous Love Acts

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/

The Children
by Paula Bohince

The Children examines the ache and balm of nostalgia; nature's cycles of brideliness, decay, and rebirth; and the beauty that is the after ... [read more]

Syzygy, Beauty
by T Fleischmann

The word “syzygy” refers at once to the alignment of celestial bodies in astronomy, repeating relationships in mathematics, and male/female pai ... [read more]

The 6.5 Practices of Moderately Successful Poets: A Self-Help Memoir
by Jeffrey Skinner

A private eye turned moderately successful poet leads readers on a satiric, hopeful tour of how to make a life in the arts, while still having a li ... [read more]

Something in My Eye
by Michael Jeffrey Lee

Michael Jeffrey Lee's stories are bizarre and smart and stilted, like dystopic fables told by a redneck Samuel Beckett. Outcasts hunker under brid ... [read more]

Rough Likeness
by Lia Purpura

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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