Poem of the Week: “This April” by Alice Friman

The VPR Poem of the Week is Alice Friman’s “This April,” which appeared in the Spring/Summer 2003 issue (Volume IV, Number 2) of Valparaiso Poetry Review.

Alice Friman is the author of nine collections of poetry, most recently Vinculum from LSU Press. Previous books are The Book of the Rotten Daughter, Inverted Fire, and Zoo, which won the Ezra Pound Poetry Award from Truman State University and the Sheila Margaret Motton Prize from NEPC. She has received fellowships from the Indiana Arts Commission, the Arts Council of Indianapolis, and the Bernheim Foundation, and she won the 2001 James Boatwright Prize from Shenandoah. Her poems have appeared in Best American Poetry 2009, Poetry, The Georgia Review, and other publications. Anthologized widely and published in thirteen countries, Friman was a professor of English and creative writing at the University of Indianapolis from 1973 to 1993, and she is now Poet-in-Residence at Georgia College & State University.

Tuesday of each week One Poet’s Notes highlights an excellent work by a poet selected from the archives of Valparaiso Poetry Review, except when other posts with news or updates preempt the usual appearance of this item, with the recommendation that readers revisit it.