Margot Schilpp: "The Fish Channel"

The VPR Poem of the Week is “The Fish Channel” by Margot Schilpp, which appeared in the Fall/Winter 1999-2000 issue (Volume I, Number 1) of Valparaiso Poetry Review.

Margot Schilpp’s two books of poetry are The World’s Last Night (2001) and Laws of My Nature (2005), both from Carnegie Mellon University Press. Her poems have appeared in many magazines, including Chelsea, Denver Quarterly, Gettysburg Review, Shenandoah, and Southern Review. She has been granted residencies at the Fundacion Valparaiso in Spain, the MacDowell Colony, the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, and Yaddo.

Schilpp was the featured poet for the Spring/Summer 2004 issue (Volume V, Number 2) of Valparaiso Poetry Review, which also contains a review of The World’s Last Night by Marianne Poloskey. In addition, Laws of My Nature was reviewed earlier this year in “One Poet’s Notes.”

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