The VPR Poem of the Week is “Hawks” by Katharine Coles, which appears in the special tenth anniversary issue (Volume XI, Number 1) of Valparaiso Poetry Review.Katharine Coles’ books include four collections of poetry—Fault, The Golden Years of the Fourth Dimension, A History of the Garden, and The One Right Touch—and two novels, Fire Season and The Measureable World. Her stories, poems, and essays have appeared in Kenyon Review, The New Republic, Paris Review, Poetry, and a number of other journals. She has received awards from the National Endowment for the Arts and PEN, among many other organizations. Coles teaches creative writing and literature in the English Department at the University of Utah. In 2006, she was named to a five-year term as Utah’s Poet Laureate. Katharine Coles is Director of the Harriet Monroe Poetry Institute at the Poetry Foundation in Chicago.
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Hawks have much more courage than most....not to give night even a thought....and to be....still. This is a quiet poem that listens well.
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