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Patricia Colleen Murphy

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Patricia Colleen Murphy is Professor Emerita at Arizona State University, where she taught creative writing and magazine production for 31 years. She won the 2019 Press 53 Poetry Award with her collection Bully Love. She won the 2016 May Swenson Poetry Award judged by Stephen Dunn, and her poetry collection Hemming Flames was published by University Press of Colorado in summer 2016. Her writing has appeared in many literary journals, including The Iowa Review, Quarterly West, and American Poetry Review, and most recently in Black Warrior Review, North American Review, Smartish Pace, Burnside Review, Poetry Northwest, Third Coast, Hobart, decomP, Midway Journal, Armchair/Shotgun, and Natural Bridge. Her work has received awards from the Asso ...more

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	Hemming Flames by Patricia Colleen Murphy (Goodreads Author), Stephen Dunn (Foreword) 4.58 avg rating — 79 ratings — published 2016 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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	Beloved Father Person (New Orleans Review 38.2 Book 1) it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 7 ratings — published 2013	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Dream Count

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The Sellout

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Mastering the Potter's Wheel: Techniques, Tips, and Tricks for Potters (Mastering Ceramics)

by Ben Carter

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“There’s a certain kind of woman who will notice someone’s terror and call it bravery.”
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“There is a certain kind of person who, when insulted, will assume you have something they need.”
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“Being alone was what I wanted; being alone was not what I wanted.”
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“It was not that kind of leaving. I am not that kind of gone.”
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“the mainstream thrust of anti-intellectualism, as it stands today, characterizes thinking itself as an elitist activity.”
― Maggie Nelson, The Art of Cruelty: A Reckoning

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