"Sen-Sen"

Those tiny black chips that corrected my breath,
where are they? In a small factory
in western Pennsylvania are two men
still baking the formula, tweezing each flake
into those envelopes? I can't find it
anywhere—not on the stock exchange,
not way in the back of my old bureau drawer
or in the lining of my tux. Where is Sen-Sen?
Two of those little squares and I'd be
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—Richard Frost, from Neighbor Blood

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.

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05-19-2012
Fort Red Border

W103, 1st Floor Ekstrom Library Belknap Campus University of Louisville 2301 S. Third Street Louisville, KY 40292
11:45 am Kentucky Women's Book Festival Reading from Fort Red Border and The Dark Is Here


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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