Jenny Boully
Jenny Boully
Reading Date: Thursday, October 24, 2013
- Welcome
- Introduction
- Opening remarks and "Sestina of Missed Connections"
- "High School Drama"
- "The Last Williamsburg (This Was About Ten Years Ago)"
- "If she lays out two spoons"
- "The wayward thing," "So you see now he appears," "The Wendy girl will live longer"
- "The little cake"
- "And he has been gone five days now"
- "Meals: Mother Wendy lays down the rules"
- "Who among us has got the syphilis?" and "Miss Mermaid has a fair amount of skin showing"
- "Skylights: he didn't last long"
- "And where have you come from, come from?"
- "Mourning Suit"
- "Tether"
- Question and Answer Session
Welcome-11199
by Tyler Meier
Introduction-11201
by Ander Monson
Opening remarks and "Sestina of Missed Connections"-11203
Differs slightly from published version.
Annotation:
Boully, Jenny. of the mismatched teacups, of the single-serving spoon: a book of failures. Atlanta, GA: Coconut Books, 2012.
"High School Drama"-11205
Differs slightly from published version.
Annotation:
Boully, Jenny. of the mismatched teacups, of the single-serving spoon: a book of failures. Atlanta, GA: Coconut Books, 2012.
"The Last Williamsburg (This Was About Ten Years Ago)"-11207
Differs slightly from published version.
Annotation:
Boully, Jenny. of the mismatched teacups, of the single-serving spoon: a book of failures. Atlanta, GA: Coconut Books, 2012.
"If she lays out two spoons"-11209
Boully, Jenny. not merely because of the unknown that was stalking toward them. Grafton, VT: Tarpaulin Sky Press, 2011.
"The wayward thing," "So you see now he appears," "The Wendy girl will live longer"-11211
Boully, Jenny. not merely because of the unknown that was stalking toward them. Grafton, VT: Tarpaulin Sky Press, 2011.
"The little cake"-11213
Boully, Jenny. not merely because of the unknown that was stalking toward them. Grafton, VT: Tarpaulin Sky Press, 2011.
"And he has been gone five days now"-11215
Boully, Jenny. not merely because of the unknown that was stalking toward them. Grafton, VT: Tarpaulin Sky Press, 2011.
"Meals: Mother Wendy lays down the rules"-11217
Boully, Jenny. not merely because of the unknown that was stalking toward them. Grafton, VT: Tarpaulin Sky Press, 2011.
"Who among us has got the syphilis?" and "Miss Mermaid has a fair amount of skin showing"-11219
Boully, Jenny. not merely because of the unknown that was stalking toward them. Grafton, VT: Tarpaulin Sky Press, 2011.
"Skylights: he didn't last long"-11221
Boully, Jenny. not merely because of the unknown that was stalking toward them. Grafton, VT: Tarpaulin Sky Press, 2011.
"And where have you come from, come from?"-11223
Boully, Jenny. not merely because of the unknown that was stalking toward them. Grafton, VT: Tarpaulin Sky Press, 2011.
"Mourning Suit"-11225
Boully, Jenny. "Mourning Suit." Passages North 34 (2013). Web. 31 Oct. 2013.
"Tether"-11227
Boully, Jenny. "Tether." Bending Genre: Essays on Creative Nonfiction Ed. Margot Singer and Nicole Walker. 23 June 2013. Web. 31 Oct. 2013.
Question and Answer Session-11229
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Series: Fall Reading Series
Sponsor(s): UA Poetry Center, UA Prose Series
Location(s): UA Poetry Center
Jenny Boully reads excerpts from of the mismatched teacups, of the single-serving spoon (2012) and not merely because of the unknown that was stalking toward them (2011), as well as new and uncollected work. This reading was given as part of the Hybrid Writing Series, co-sponsored by the UA Prose Series.

- humor
- family
- prose
- children
- death
- love
- hybrid
- sestina
- narrative
- theatre
- fathers and sons
- body
- fantasy
- fathers
- illness
- marriage
- childhood
- essay
- cruelty
- peter pan
- hamlet
- pirates
- fairytale
- the body
- cancer
- high school
- mothers
- mourning
- killing
- babies
- footnotes
- craigslist
- drama
- Williamsburg
- jealousy
- Tinkerbell
- J. M. Barrie
- eulogy
- mothers and daughters
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