The Dirty Napkin

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Upcoming Issue — Volume 3.4, Fall 2010 (22 September 2010)

About the Author

Linda Dove retired from fifteen years of college teaching in 2006 to take up ranching in Skull Valley, Arizona. She holds a Ph.D. in Renaissance literature and taught most recently at Prescott College and Yavapai College in Arizona, where she briefly directed the creative writing program. Poems have appeared in the Diner Journal, the Antigonish Review, Harpur Palate, and Clackamas Literary Review, and have won several awards, including the 2005 Stephen Dunn Award and the 2001 Alice Longan Award for a collection inspired by the American Southwest. She very recently moved with her husband and daughter to Altadena, California.

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Ghosts of Women, Ghosts of Birds

Linda L. Dove

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Featured on the Cover

Ivory-billed woodpecker lives.
—headline, Arkansas Times, 28 April 2005

Oddly-fingered, they probe doorslips,
wrap around backbones. Their voices
cluster in the spare change on the table,
mutate like jazz. [ . . . ]

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