First take the tufts of hair the dog chewed
off the fur pillows and bury them  outside
to be hidden will be listed  soon.  It  helps
to be on top of a mountain  at dusk  or  to
find   the  cabinets  stocked  with  English
supplies such as biscuits. The lawyers are
still  rich  as  are  the  dentists. Everything
else  has  changed.  I  look  frantically   for

... [ more ]

—Julia Story, from Post Moxie

Mark Jarman is interviewed by the Savannah Morning News.

Lia Purpura's Rough Likeness is reviewed in the Minneapolis Star Tribune.

The 2012 Kathryn A. Morton and Mary McCarthy contests are now open for submission! Click here to submit your manuscript electronically.

03-09-2012
Rough Likeness

2nd floor Rotunda 121 The Valley Library Oregon State University Corvallis, OR 97331–4501
7:30 pm Reading from Rough Likeness


JoLynn O Hearn
jolynn.ohearn@oregonstate.edu
(541) 737-8226
http://calendar.oregonstate.edu/event/56349/

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