The VPR Poem of the Week is “Surface/Draft 6” by Alicia Ostriker, which appeared in the Fall/Winter 2002-2002 issue (Volume IV, Number 1) of Valparaiso Poetry Review.Alicia Ostriker is the author of eleven volumes of poetry, including The Little Space: Poems Selected and New (1998) and The Crack in Everything (1996), both of which were National Book Award finalists. She is also the author of The Nakedness of the Fathers: Biblical Visions and Revisions, a combination of midrash and autobiography, and Dancing at the Devil's Party: Essays on Poetry, Politics, and the Erotic. Her work has appeared in numerous literary journals, including American Poetry Review, Kenyon Review, Nation, New Yorker, Paris Review, and Poetry. Ostriker has received awards from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Guggenheim Foundation, the Rockefeller Foundation, and the Poetry Society of America. She is Professor Emerita of English at Rutgers University.
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