"He will give me these hands, my perfect empty nests." Rita Mae Reese reads a selection of poems at the Crosshatxh reading series in 2011. Her second collection, The Book of Hulga (University of Wisconsin Press, 2016), is featured in Page One in the March/April issue of Poets & Writers Magazine.
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