Claire Bateman: "Flight Path"

The VPR Poem of the Week is Claire Bateman’s “Flight Path,” which appeared in the Spring/Summer 2006 issue (Volume VII, Number 2) of Valparaiso Poetry Review.

Claire Bateman’s collections of poetry are Leap (New Issues Press, 2005), Clumsy (New Issues Press, 2003), At the Funeral of the Ether (Ninety-Six Press, 1998), Friction (Eighth Mountain Press, 1998), and The Bicycle Slow Race (Wesleyan University Press, 1993). Her poems also have appeared in various anthologies—such as The Wesleyan Tradition (Wesleyan University Press, 1991) and The Kenyon Poets (Kenyon Review, 1989)—as well as numerous literary journals, including Georgia Review, New England Review, and Paris Review.

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