POETRY FROM PARADISE VALLEY

POETRY FROM PARADISE VALLEY
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Poetry From Paradise Valley

Pecan Grove Press has released an anthology of poems, a sampling of works published in Valparaiso Poetry Review during its first decade, from the original 1999-2000 volume to the 2009-2010 volume.


Poetry from Paradise Valley includes a stellar roster of 50 poets. Among the contributors are a former Poet Laureate of the United States, a winner of the Griffin International Prize, two Pulitzer Prize winners, two National Book Award winners, two National Book Critics Circle winners, six finalists for the National Book Award, four finalists for the National Book Critics Circle Award, two finalists for the Pulitzer Prize, and a few dozen recipients of other honors, such as fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, etc.

Readers are encouraged to visit the Poetry from Paradise Valley page at the publisher's web site, where ordering information about the book can be found.

Best Books of Indiana 2011: Finalist. Judges' Citation: "Poetry from Paradise Valley is an excellent anthology that features world-class poetry, including the work of many artists from the Midwest, such as Jared Carter, Annie Finch, David Baker, and Allison Joseph. It’s an eclectic and always interesting collection where poems on similar themes flow into each other. It showcases the highest caliber of U. S. poetry."
—Indiana Center for the Book, Indiana State Library

Tuesday, January 8, 2008

Gray Jacobik: "Sasturgi: Wind-Sculpted Snow"

The VPR Poem of the Week is Gray Jacobik’s “Sasturgi: Wind-Sculpted Snow,” which appeared in the Spring/Summer 2004 issue (Volume V, Number 2) of Valparaiso Poetry Review.

Gray Jacobik’s poetry has appeared in Alaska Quarterly Review, American Literary Review, Kenyon Review, North American Review, Ontario Review, Ploughshares, Poetry, Prairie Schooner, Southern Humanities Review, Sycamore Review, and many other journals, as well as in two editions of the annual Best American Poetry anthologies. Her first book, The Double Task (University of Massachusetts Press, 1998), received the Juniper Prize. The Surface of Last Scattering (Texas Review Press, 1999) was a winner of the X.J. Kennedy Poetry Prize. A third collection, Brave Disguises (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2002), won the AWP Poetry Series Award.

She edited Fullest Tide: Poems of Ann Silsbee (Custom Words, 2006), a posthumous collection. Jacobik also contributed a review of Ann Silsbee’s Orioling in the Spring/Summer 2004 issue of Valparaiso Poetry Review. She has been the recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in Creative Writing. A Professor Emeritus of the English department at Eastern Connecticut State University, Gray Jacobik is a member of the graduate faculty at the University of Southern Maine’s Stonecoast MFA Program in Creative Writing.

Tuesday of each week “One Poet’s Notes” highlights an exceptional work by a poet selected from the archives of Valparaiso Poetry Review with the recommendation that readers revisit it. Please check the sidebar to view the list of poets and works that have been past “Poem of the Week” selections. Additionally, readers are reminded that VPR pages are best read with the browser font preference in which they were set, 12 pt. Times New Roman, in order to guarantee the stanza alignment and the breaks of longer lines are preserved.

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