Poem of the Week: “China Poem” by Liz Robbins

The VPR Poem of the Week is Liz Robbins’ “China Poem,” which appears in the Fall/Winter 2011-2012 issue (Volume XIII, Number 1) of Valparaiso Poetry Review—the 25th issue of the journal—that was recently released.

Liz Robbins’ new manuscript, Play Button, won the 2010 Cider Press Review Book Award, judged by Patricia Smith. Her poems have appeared in Barrow Street, Cimarron Review, Greensboro Review, MARGIE, New Ohio Review, Puerto del Sol, and Rattle, and are forthcoming in Barn Owl Review, Bayou, Gargoyle, and Poet Lore. Poems from her first book, Hope, As the World Is a Scorpion Fish (Backwaters Press), were featured on Garrison Keillor’s Writer’s Almanac and Verse Daily. She’s an assistant professor of creative writing at Flagler College in St. Augustine, Florida, and presented her poems this past April at a New York Institute of Technology conference in Nanjing, China.

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