Kate Sontag: "Migration"

The VPR Poem of the Week is Kate Sontag’s “Migration,” which appeared in the Fall/Winter 2002-2003 issue (Volume IV, Number 1) of Valparaiso Poetry Review.

Kate Sontag’s poems have been published in numerous journals and anthologies, such as Boomer Girls, In Praise of Pedagogy, The Chester H. Jones National Winners Anthology, Green Mountains Review, Kalliope, Prairie Schooner, Salt Hill Journal, Southern Poetry Review, and elsewhere. With David Graham, she co-edited After Confession: Poetry as Autobiography (Graywolf Press, 2001). Her essay from that book, “Mother May I?: Writing with Love,” also appears in the Fall/Winter 2002-2003 issue of VPR. Sontag teaches at Ripon College and the University of Wisconsin at Oshkosh.

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