Carol Frost: "One Fine Day"

The VPR Poem of the Week is Carol Frost’s “One Fine Day,” which appeared in the Fall/Winter 2002-2003 issue (Volume IV, Number 1) of Valparaiso Poetry Review.

Carol Frost is the author of nine collections of poetry since her first book, The Salt Lesson, appeared in 1976. . Her most recent volumes of poetry are I Will Say Beauty (2003) and The Queen’s Desertion (2006), both released by Northwestern University Press. She has had her work published widely in many literary journals, magazines, and newspapers, including Atlantic Monthly, Kenyon Review, New England Review, The New York Times, Paris Review, Poetry, Shenandoah, Southern Review, and TriQuarterly. Frost has received two fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and three Pushcart Prizes. In addition, she served as a poetry editor for the 2004 Pushcart Prize Anthology. Carol Frost is a Professor of English and Writer in Residence at Hartwick College.

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