MUDLARK FLASH NO. 14 (2001)
Frances Ruhlen McConnel | Three Poems
On Seeing on CNN that My Hometown of Oak Ridge, Tennessee,
May be the Most Polluted Community in America, I Cried Out in Protest;
Psalm; and We Dream of Heroes...
Frances Ruhlen McConnel is a poet and writer of short stories and creative
nonfiction. She teaches in the Creative Writing Department at the
University of California, Riverside. She lives in Claremont, California,
and her old stomping grounds include Oak Ridge, Tennessee, Anchorage,
Alaska, and Seattle, Washington, where she attended the University of
Washington. She has published one book of poetry: GATHERING LIGHT from
Pygmalion Press, and has another book, WOLF & BEAR, set to appear any day
from Alpha-Zed Press on the Web. She edited a collection of West Coast
Women's Poetry, ONE STEP CLOSER, also from the now defunct Pygmalion
Press. Recently her poems have appeared, or will be appearing, in THE
WILSHIRE REVIEW, SOLO, THE AMERICAN POETRY REVIEW, THE INTERNATIONAL
POETRY REVIEW, CRAB CREEK REVIEW, and SALT RIVER REVIEW. She is presently
working on an eccentric family memoir.
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William Slaughter
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