Kathrine Varnes: "Four Sonnets from 'His Next Ex-Wife'"

The VPR Poetry of the Week is Kathrine Varnes’s “Four Sonnets from ‘His Next Ex-Wife,’” which appeared in the Fall/Winter 2003-2004 issue (Volume V, Number 1) of Valparaiso Poetry Review.

Varnes’s book of poems, The Paragon, was published by Word Tech Press in 2005. Her poetry has appeared in a number of literary magazines, including American Literary Review, Black Warrior Review, Comstock Review, Prairie Schooner, and Salt River Review. Her essays on contemporary poetry and feminism also have appeared in various journals and collections including After New Formalism, Connotations, and Parnassus. Varnes co-edited, with Annie Finch, An Exaltation of Forms: Contemporary Poets Celebrate the Diversity of their Art (University of Michigan Press, 2002).

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