LESLEY WHEELER

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  • Square coats: AWP & Shenandoah

    Square coats: AWP & Shenandoah

    Performances ahead: Now filing out of the auditorium for a while: AWP and Shenandoah. A friend of mine, describing a thorny family situation amid the hubbub of AWP’s Book Fair, tried to say, “I shouldn’t use scare quotes.” The phrase came out “square coats.” Square old me, standing there in my favorite velvet blazer–I hadn’t…

  • So many of us!

    Nudgers and shoversIn spite of ourselves.Our kind multiplies:We shall by morningInherit the earth.Our foot’s in the door. –“Mushrooms” by Sylvia Plath I reread Plath’s “Mushrooms” this week (plus a fun little article about it) as I nudged and shoved through a pile of deadlines. This included hurriedly writing a synopsis of my novel Grievous so…