Pamela Garvey: "The Wasp Nest Growing Inside Our Window Frame"

The VPR Poem of the Week is Pamela Garvey’s “The Wasp Nest Growing Inside Our Window Frame,” which appeared in the Spring/Summer 2003 issue (Volume IV, Number 2) of Valparaiso Poetry Review.

Pamela Garvey's chapbook, Fear, was published by Finishing Line Press. Her fiction and poetry have appeared in many literary journals including Asheville Poetry Review, The North American Review, Pleiades, Santa Barbara Review, Sonora Review, South Carolina Review, Southern Indiana Review, Sou’wester, and Spoon River Poetry Review. She is a professor of English at St. Louis Community College-Meramec.

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