Robin Kemp: "Climbing"

The VPR Poem of the Week is Robin Kemp’s “Climbing,” which appeared in the Fall/Winter 2003-2004 issue (Volume V, Number 1) of Valparaiso Poetry Review.

Robin Kemp’s poems and critical reviews have appeared in a number of literary journals, including Able Muse, Chattahoochee Review, Chili Verde Review, Ellipsis, GSU Review, Oxford Journal, Texas Poetry Journal, Texas Review, and Verse Daily. Her poetry also has been published in various anthologies, such as Letters to the World: Poems from the WOM-PO Listserv (Red Hen Press), Maple Leaf Rag III (Portals Press), and Rites of Spring: A Miscellany of Flowers (Pecan Grove Press). She teaches in the English Department at Georgia State University, where she is finishing her Ph.D.

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