Amanda Auchter: "Wasteland of Parts"

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

Amanda Auchter is the author of Light Under the Skin (Finishing Line Press, 2006). Her writing has appeared in Antietam Review, Bellevue Literary Review, Blue Unicorn, Cimarron Review, Crab Orchard Review, Evansville Review, Homestead Review, North American Review, Pennsylvania English, Smartish Pace, Tampa Review, Willow Review, Writer’s Journal, and others. She is the recipient of the 2004 Howard Moss Poetry Prize, the 2005 Milton Kessler Memorial Prize, and the 2005 James Wright Poetry Award. Amanda Auchter is the editor of Pebble Lake Review.

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