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	New Poets of Native Nations by Heid E. Erdrich (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Tacey M. Atsitty (Contributor), Layli Long Soldier (Contributor) 4.40 avg rating — 670 ratings — published 2018 — 2 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
	The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: 14th Annual by Ellen Datlow (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Terri Windling (Editor), Claudia Barbosa Nogueira 4.02 avg rating — 211 ratings — published 2001 — 2 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
	Feral 4.23 avg rating — 47 ratings — published 2007 — 2 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
	Red Weather (Volume 71) (Sun Tracks) 3.74 avg rating — 46 ratings — published 2012 — 3 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
	The Island of Lost Luggage (First Book Award Series) 4.23 avg rating — 35 ratings — published 2000 — 2 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
	The People Who Stayed: Southeastern Indian Writing After Removal by Geary Hobson (Editor), Janet McAdams (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Kathryn Walkiewicz 4.21 avg rating — 14 ratings — published 2010 — 3 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
	Seven Boxes for the Country After (Wick Chapbook Series 5) 4.57 avg rating — 7 ratings — 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
	SRPR, Spoon River Poetry Review, 42.2, Winter 2017 by Spoon River Poetry Review, Kirstin Hotelling Zona (Editor), Ewa Chrusciel (Contributor) 4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 2017	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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“Some of the dead are too useful for sympathy
The past we own exists on stone and white paper.”
― Janet McAdams

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“What is the savior of the world doing among these wire fences, in all this broken glass?”
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“You, little blank slate,
on which we write our misfortune,
learn the lesson for today:
you are rare enough to be stolen.”
― Janet McAdams, The Island of Lost Luggage

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message 1: by Cate (last edited Aug 25, 2016 12:29PM)

Sep 13, 2007 08:09AM

Hi Janet,

How exciting to find you like this! I'm sorry we missed each other at AWP last year, but maybe New York? I don't usually do the online group thing, but I like the book forum--I feel like it's a good purpose to indulge. Bloomington is beginning to cool off a little, and we're still waiting for the leaves to turn. My writing is (I think and hope) improving--how are you? What are you working on? I find myself thinking of Kenyon the most in the Fall,
Cate

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