The Dirty Napkin

Poetry • Fiction • Letters

Submissions for Volume 4.1, Winter 2011 (21 December 2010) will be accepted until 15 November 2010

About the Author

Paula McLain is the author of two collections of poetry, Less of Her and Stumble, Gorgeous, both from New Issues Press. She's also published a memoir (Like Family, Little Brown, 2003) and a debut novel, A Ticket to Ride, recently out from Ecco/HarperCollins. She's a core faculty member in the MFA Program in Poetry at New England College, and lives in Ohio.

Other Works in the Dirty Napkin

Bog Man [1.2]

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Nocturne

Paula McLain

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Nine species of spider we had—in the woodshed, the wilting coop—
and translucent scorpions small as pushpins, and black snakes

roping over the threshold. But it was the spiders,
figurative and stowaway: the [ . . . ]

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