Before Vandalism


At the end of my day, after huffing gasoline fumes
from sacks collected from the gas station trash,
I consider a board, fifth grade, a container of ice,
and rosary beads, in this order, unconnected

and glorious. There is more than one way into
the world, the school that's torn down
and condemned. Ingress is easy, but egress
(like that of the egrets) is elusive, the mathematics ... [ more ]

—Ander Monson, from The Available World

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.

05-28-2012
You Have Given Me a Country

Spalding University 845 South Third St. Louisville, Kentucky 40203
May 28-31 BFA Visiting-Writer-in-Residence


http://www.spalding.edu/

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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