Margaret Perry: "At Stes. Maries de la Mer, Summer 1977"

The VPR Poem of the Week is Margaret Perry’s “At Stes. Maries de la Mer, Summer 1977,” which appeared in the Fall/Winter 2000-2001 issue (Volume II, Number 1) of Valparaiso Poetry Review.

Margaret Perry’s poetry and short stories have appeared in many journals, including Arts Alive, Forum, Obsidian II, Panache, Phylon, Short Story International, and Willow Review. Her books include A Bio-Bibliography of Countee P. Cullen, 1903-1946, Silence of the Drums: A Survey of the Literature of the Harlem Renaissance, and The Short Fiction of Rudolph Fisher, all published by Greenwood Press. Perry has taught Afro-American Literature at the University of Rochester and worked as a librarian in the New York Public Library and the U.S. Army at West Point. She retired as director of Valparaiso University's Moellering Library in 1993.

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