Peter Serchuk: "Not Like This Rose"

The VPR Poem of the Week is Peter Serchuk’s “Not Like This Rose,” which appeared in the Fall/Winter 2003-2004 issue (Volume V, Number 1) of Valparaiso Poetry Review.

Peter Serchuk is the author of Waiting for Poppa at the Southtown Diner (University of Illinois Press). His poetry also has appeared in various literary journals—including American Poetry Review, Boulevard, Denver Quarterly, Mid-American Review, North American Review, Paris Review, Poetry, and South Carolina Review—as well as the recently released anthology, Best American Erotic Poems from 1800 to the Present (Scribner), edited by David Lehman.

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