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Miles Harvey
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Miles Harvey’s fiction has appeared in Ploughshares, The Sun, AGNI, The Michigan Quarterly Review and other publications. His most recent work of nonfiction, The King of Confidence (Little, Brown & Co., 2020), was a New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice selection. Harvey also wrote The Island of Lost Maps (Random House, 2000) and Painter in a Savage Land (Random House, 2008). He teaches creative writing at DePaul University in Chicago, where he is a founding editor of Big Shoulders Books and the director of the DePaul Publishing Institute.

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Vol. 82
Works & Days
Spring 2024
Bradford Morrow

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October 9, 2024
Flattened stone floor, covered
in wooden slats, the portico
with columns and even arches,
not exactly the porch
the other house (our same floor
plan doubled into something else)
had across our common grass.
October 2, 2024
It is not a beautiful day in Mexico City unless you can see Popocatépetl. In this place, beauty is determined solely by whether or not the volcano breaches the nebulous smog like a visitation, by whether the eye can ascend its snow-covered face. When what was sensed but veiled yesterday is suddenly revealed today, it is, in the smallest way, a faith realized.
 
September 25, 2024
My eyes were already fixed on the face
Of My Lady, and my mind with them—
All other thoughts had been wiped away.

She wasn’t smiling; instead, she began:
“If I were smiling, you’d become
Like Semele when she was turned to ashes,
The internationally renowned writer will read from her work.
Monday, October 21, 2024
4:00 pm – 5:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
Chapel of the Holy Innocents