Bicycling to School

Voices fade; the wordless air's cool, but no dew.
Spruce needles riffle, silent above the park,
glistening in this tipped light like
the fur of big animals still asleep. A few
leaves left on the picnic tables' shade oaks;
besides their rattle and tickling spokes,
just a scold from one bird and the moan
of wind over prairie—or maybe that's an airplane
drifted off-course. The anemometer's
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—Debra Nystrom, from Bad River Road

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.

07-22-2012
Rough Likeness

The Creative Writing Programs MS-A1730 Hamline University 1536 Hewitt Avenue Saint Paul, MN 55104
2012/07/22 to 2012/07/28 Hamline University MFA Program Residency


http://www.hamline.edu/cwp/

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