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Pitman Creek ~ Jeff Muse

Posted on January 9, 2014

The popular view of Appalachia is a land where every man is willing, at the drop of a proverbial overall strap, to shoot, fight, or fuck anything on hind legs. ...

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2013 National Book Awards on Campus Video

Posted on November 29, 2013

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Madison, August 1 ~ Robin Chapman

Posted on September 6, 2013

    Dear Ones—I was eating oatmeal in the garden that was shining in praise of last night’s quarter inch of rain, every leaf and petal lifted glistening, a...

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Hiding ~ Sandell Morse

Posted on August 27, 2012

  The year is 1940. Germaine Russo, twenty-one years old, walks along a street in Brive, a town four hundred and eighty-two kilometers south of Paris. War ...

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Human Hands ~ Jason M. Jones

Posted on August 27, 2012

  Kenji Sitting side-by-side, facing forward atop a stone wall, Kenji fell in love with Natsuki over the course of an afternoon with a single gesture. It went f...

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Scold ~ Arthur Diamond

Posted on August 27, 2012

  The rabbi was just coming out of the Mecca Mart when the woman went down in front of him. Her cane clattered away and her grocery sack tumbled with her, spill...

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Watershed Burns With Lightning ~ Elizabeth Dodd

Posted on August 27, 2012

  I. Here come the vultures. One, then two, they rip the soft parts of the carcass, the bison’s eyes and ass.   In the livid instant before lightning ...

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Play With Matches ~ Lilah Clay

Posted on August 27, 2012

  I woke up this morning to Spanish moss hanging from the chandelier. While I’d been asleep pepper vines had snuck in the back window headed for the librar...

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2012 National Book Awards on Campus Video

Posted on April 9, 2012

2012 National Book Awards on Campus program at Concordia College featuring Nikky Finney, winner of the National Book Award for Head Off & Split, and Thanhha...

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To Nap ~ Jesse Lee Kercheval

Posted on June 14, 2011

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