Leslie Ullman
Leslie Ullman's first book, Natural Histories, recieved the Yale Younger Poets Prize, and her subsequent books are Dream by No One's Daughter (Pittsburgh, 1987) and Slow Work Through Sand (Iowa, 1998). She is an emerita professor at the University of Texas, El Passo and teaches in the Vermont College of Fine Arts MFA program. She recieved NEA fellowship in 1976 and 1989
Reading List
Spacious
All these greenings and gleanings in the fields, and her own body moving easily in and out of the weather. Her parents still themselves in their glowing home far away, poised to welcome her. Sometimes the memory of another house …
Night Opens the Foothills
Mind walks through the house turning off every lamp but one, leaving a trail of small relinquishments— a book turned face-down at the spot where sleepiness overtook the little cogs and wheels, a cup of tea tasted and then forgotten. …