Kate Sontag: "American Honeymoon Lyric, Circa 1987"

The VPR Poem of the Week is Kate Sontag’s “American Honeymoon Lyric, Circa 1987,” which appeared in the Fall/Winter 2002-2003 issue (Volume IV, Number 1) of Valparaiso Poetry Review, where she was a featured poet.

With David Graham, Kate Sontag co-edited After Confession: Poetry as Autobiography (Graywolf, 2001), a collection of critical commentary that was reviewed in VPR. Her essay from that book, “Mother May I? Writing with Love,” also appeared in Valparaiso Poetry Review. Sontag’s work has been published in a number of anthologies, including Boomer Girls, Are You Experienced, In Praise of Pedagogy, and the Chester H. Jones National Winners Anthology. In addition, her poetry has appeared in various literary journals, such as Blue Moon Review, Green Mountains Review, Kalliope, Nimrod, Prairie Schooner, Rattle, Salt Hill Journal, and Southern Poetry Review. She teaches at Ripon College.

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