Miriam N. Kotzin: "Remission"

The VPR Poem of the Week is Miriam N. Kotzin’s “Remission,” which appeared in the Fall/Winter 2004-2005 issue (Volume VI, Number 1) of Valparaiso Poetry Review.

Miriam N. Kotzin teaches literature and creative writing at Drexel University in Philadelphia, where she is Director of the Certificate Program in Writing and Publishing. Her poetry has been published in a number of magazines, among them: Boulevard, Confrontation, Iron Horse Literary Review, Mid-American Review, Painted Bride Quarterly, Plum Ruby Review, Poetry Niederngasse, Pulpsmith, Segue, Small Spiral Notebook, Snow Monkey, and Southern Humanities Review. Kotzin’s forthcoming book of poetry, Reclaiming the Dead, will be released by New American Press in the fall of 2008. She also is a co-founding editor of the online literary journal, Per Contra.

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