Mulroney

Where the hell do these people come from?
Mulroney asked me.
We were crumpling up a Sunday New York Times
That had found its way into the pile of papers
We used as packing filler for glass jars of honey.
We were wadding up the wedding notices-
Young lawyers in love with account executives.
Their fathers were surgeons and vice-presidents;
Their mothers were psychologists and counselors.

We were working as prep
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—Baron Wormser, from Mulroney & Others

Ryan Van Meter's If You Knew Then What I Know Now is a finalist for the Eric Hoffer Award.

Caitlin Horrocks' This Is Not Your City is shortlisted for the William Saroyan International Prize for Writing.

Lia Purpura is interviewed in Orion.

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/

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