From The Motel of the Stars


As Jason Sanderson drove the long hours east for another foreclosure, he followed signs and directions for only so long. Then he pulled over to listen to cicadas and distant afternoon thunder. He stood in the summer grass, the Joe Pye weeds, tall and purple-blossomed, and remembered himself as a boy, fields where he'd slipped from church with the rest of them to smoke cigarettes and to sip stolen medicinal whiskey. He
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—Karen McElmurray, from The Motel of the Stars

RALPH declares Eleanor Lerman's Our Post-Soviet History Unfolds one of the best poetry books of the last fifteen years.

Eleanor Lerman's poetry is back on The Writer's Almanac! Check out "The City, Berobed in Blue" from The Sensual World Re-emerges.

Kiki Petrosino's Fort Red Border is on Justin Taylor's summer reading list at the Poetry Foundation and The Huffington Post.

10-12-2010
The Name of the Nearest River

7 p.m. Kentucky Great Writers Series The Carnegie Center for Literacy & Learning 251 West Second Street Lexington, Kentucky 40507

(859) 254-4175
http://carnegieliteracy.org/events/kentucky-great-writers-series/

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