Poem of the Week: "A Threat in May" by Lisa Lewis

The VPR Poem of the Week is Lisa Lewis’s “A Threat in May,” which appears in the current issue (Spring/Summer 2010: Volume XI, Number 2) of Valparaiso Poetry Review.

Lisa Lewis is the author of The Unbeliever (University of Wisconsin Press, 1994), winner of the Brittingham Prize; Silent Treatment (Viking/Penguin, 1998), a National Poetry Series selection; Burned House with Swimming Pool (Dream Horse Press), and Vivisect (New Issues Press), both forthcoming. Her poems have been published widely in literary journals, including American Literary Review, Crab Orchard Review, Kenyon Review, Laurel Review, Michigan Quarterly Review, and Portland Review. Lewis directs the creative writing program at Oklahoma State University.

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