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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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The Blue Eye of Earth: Poems (Pitt Poetry Series)

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Men Who Hate Women: The Extremism Nobody is Talking About

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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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“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.”
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