Goat
after Peter Matthiessen

This goat by the crooked door,
gazing through sheets of rain into the mud,
a cosmic vision? Or might it simply be
my grandfather's goat, the one I remember
from the barn in Saratoga on Congress Street,
the black and white goat that lived among the chickens
back in the darkness. "I long to let go,
drift free of things,
to accumulate less, depend
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—Dick Allen, from Present Vanishing

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.

03-02-2012
Rough Likeness

The Association of Writers & Writing Programs 2012 Annual Conference Hilton Chicago & Palmer House Hilton Chicago, IL
09:00 am Panel: "Not With a Bang but With a Whisper: Artful Routes to Literary Activism"


http://www.awpwriter.org/conference/2012awpconf.php

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