the other hand by Marjorie Maddox

What is
is another matter:
the other side of if
spiraling out of a black hold,
compressed into a question,
then an exclamation point
straight as western Ohio.
Dip it once, it comes out white
inside and out, twice and you can lick it
till there's nothing but a stick to pick your teeth with
or a pool cue that fingers the
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—Kristin Herbert and Kirby Gann, from A Fine Excess: Contemporary Literature at Play

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.

05-19-2012
Small Fires

Anne Braden Institute for Social Justice, 2nd Floor Ekstrom Library Belknap Campus University of Louisville 2301 S. Third Street Louisville, KY 40292
2:00 pm Kentucky Women's Book Festival Afternoon session: “Shifting the Gaze: From the Retrospective Memoir to the Coming of Age Narrative”


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

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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