Photo of the Week: "Windy Evening at Lake Michigan"

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Photo of the Week: "Red Cones"

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Photo of the Week: "At the Beach"

I remind all interested that my new photographs are available at a daily photo journal blog. I invite everyone to visit the blog for commentary about the photo and to click on the images there to examine them in high resolution or to magnify them for a detailed look.

Rebecca Dunham: "Forgiveness"

The VPR Poem of the Week is Rebecca Dunham’s “Forgiveness,” which appeared in the Spring/Summer 2013 issue (Volume XIV, Number 2) of Valparaiso Poetry Review.
 

Rebecca Dunham is the author of two poetry collections, The Flight Cage and The Miniature Room, and she is an associate professor at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.

 

Tuesday of each week One Poet’s Notes highlights an excellent work by a poet selected from the issues 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.

Photo of the Week: "Secret Retreat"

I remind all interested that my new photographs are available at a daily photo journal blog. I invite everyone to visit the blog for commentary about the photo and to click on the images there to examine them in high resolution or to magnify them for a detailed look.

Lightsey Darst: "June"

The VPR Poem of the Week is Lightsey Darst’s “June,” which appeared in the Spring/Summer 2008 issue (Volume IX, Number 1) of Valparaiso Poetry Review.
 

Lightsey Darst received a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship for Literature in 2007. Her work has been published in Antioch Review, Gulf Coast, The Literary Review, New Letters, and elsewhere. She is the author of Find the Girl (Coffee House Press, 2010). Also a dancer, she writes about dance for The Huffington Post.

 

Tuesday of each week One Poet’s Notes highlights an excellent work by a poet selected from the issues 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.

Photo of the Week: "Weir Bridge in Late Spring"

I remind all interested that my new photographs are available at a daily photo journal blog. I invite everyone to visit the blog for commentary about the photo and to click on the images there to examine them in high resolution or to magnify them for a detailed look.

Donald Stinson: "On Three Hats of My Father's"

The VPR Poem of the Week is Donald Stinson’s “On Three Hats of My Father's,” which appears in the Fall/Winter 2004-2005 issue (Volume VI, Number 1) of Valparaiso Poetry Review.
 

Donald Stinson has had poems published in Briar Cliff Review, Loonfeather, Southwestern American Literature, and Verve.  He teaches writing, literature, and humanities at Northern Oklahoma College.

 

Tuesday of each week One Poet’s Notes highlights an excellent work by a poet selected from the issues 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.

Photo of the Week: "Lake Seen Through Trees"

I remind all interested that my new photographs are available at a daily photo journal blog. I invite everyone to visit the blog for commentary about the photo and to click on the images there to examine them in high resolution or to magnify them for a detailed look.

Jeff Knorr: "Alfalfa"

The VPR Poem of the Week is Jeff Knorr’s “Alfalfa,” which appears in the Spring/Summer 2013 issue (Volume XIV, Number 2) of Valparaiso Poetry Review.
 

Jeff Knorr is the author of three books of poetry, The Third Body (Cherry Grove Collections), Keeper (Mammoth Books), and Standing Up to the Day (Pecan Grove Press).  His other works include Mooring Against the Tide: Writing Poetry and Fiction (Prentice Hall); the anthology, A Writer's Country (Prentice Hall); and The River Sings: An Introduction to Poetry (Prentice Hall). Knorr lives in Sacramento, California and is Professor of literature and creative writing at Sacramento City College and is the Poet Laureate of Sacramento.

 

Tuesday of each week One Poet’s Notes highlights an excellent work by a poet selected from the issues 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.

Photo of the Week: "Deadwood"

I remind all interested that my new photographs are available at a daily photo journal blog. I invite everyone to visit the blog for commentary about the photo and to click on the images there to examine them in high resolution or to magnify them for a detailed look.

Will Wells: "The Stamps He Sent Me"

The VPR Poem of the Week is Will Wells’s “The Stamps He Sent Me,” which appears in the Spring/Summer 2013 issue (Volume XIV, Number 2) of Valparaiso Poetry Review.
 

Will Wells is the author of Unsettled Accounts, which won the 2009 Hollis Summers Poetry Prize from Ohio University/Swallow Press. His poems have appeared in Image, Birmingham Poetry Review, Tampa Review, 32 Poems, Connecticut Review, Cimarron Review, and River Styx, among other journals.

 

Tuesday of each week One Poet’s Notes highlights an excellent work by a poet selected from the issues 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.

Photo of the Week: "Farm Pond in May"

I remind all interested that my new photographs are available at a daily photo journal blog. I invite everyone to visit the blog for commentary about the photo and to click on the images there to examine them in high resolution or to magnify them for a detailed look.

Deborah Bogen: "Vigil"

The VPR Poem of the Week is Deborah Bogen’s “Vigil,” which appears in the Spring/Summer 2013 issue (Volume XIV, Number 2) of Valparaiso Poetry Review.
 

Deborah Bogen’s book-length collections are Let Me Open You a Swan (Elixir Press, 2009) and Landscape with Silos (Texas A&M University Press), which was a 2004 National Poetry Series finalist and won the 2005 X.J. Kennedy Poetry Prize. Living by the Children's Cemetery was selected by Edward Hirsch as winner of 
the 2002 ByLine Press Chapbook Competition. Her poems and reviews appear widely in magazines, including Crazyhorse, Field, Gettysburg Review, Margie, New Letters, Poetry Daily, Poetry International, Shenandoah, and Verse Daily.

 

Tuesday of each week One Poet’s Notes highlights an excellent work by a poet selected from the issues 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.

Photo of the Week: "Storm Front at Sunset"

I remind all interested that my new photographs are available at a daily photo journal blog. I invite everyone to visit the blog for commentary about the photo and to click on the images there to examine them in high resolution or to magnify them for a detailed look.

Cathy McArthur: "Rooms"

The VPR Poem of the Week is Cathy McArthur’s “Rooms,” which appears in the Spring/Summer 2013 issue (Volume XIV, Number 2) of Valparaiso Poetry Review.
 

Cathy McArthur has had poems published in Lumina, Hanging Loose, Jacket, Gargoyle, Blue Fifth Review, Bellevue Literary Review, and other journals.

 

Tuesday of each week One Poet’s Notes highlights an excellent work by a poet selected from the issues 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.

Photo of the Week: "Late Light at the Lake"

I remind all interested that my new photographs are available at a daily photo journal blog. I invite everyone to visit the blog for commentary about the photo and to click on the images there to examine them in high resolution or to magnify them for a detailed look.

Laurie Lamon: "Not in a Certain Light"

The VPR Poem of the Week is Laurie Lamon’s “Not in a Certain Light,” which appears in the Spring/Summer 2013 issue (Volume XIV, Number 2) of Valparaiso Poetry Review.
 

Laurie Lamon's work has appeared in The Atlantic, New Republic, New Criterion, Ploughshares, and other journals. Her two collections of poetry are The Fork Without Hunger (2005) and Without Wings (2009), both from CavanKerry Press. Lamon is a professor of English at Whitworth University.

Tuesday of each week One Poet’s Notes highlights an excellent work by a poet selected from the issues 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.

Announcement: Publication of Spring/Summer 2013 VPR

I am pleased to announce publication of the 28^th issue of Valparaiso Poetry Review:

http://www.valpo.edu/vpr/

The Spring/Summer 2012-2013 issue (Volume XIV, Number 2) of VPR includes Jim Daniels as the featured poet. Readers will find in the contents a trio of new poems by Daniels. In addition, 32 other poets are represented in the new issue of VPR.

Contents:

Featured Poet: Jim Daniels

Additional Poets: Deborah Bogen, T. Alan Broughton, Jared Carter, Robin Chapman, Liz Clift, Alfred Corn, Nick Courtright, Paul Dickey, Susan Donnelly, Rebecca Dunham, William Ford, Rebecca Foust, Ethan Grant, John Hogan, Suzanne Marie Hopcroft, Ann Hostetler, Gwendolyn Jensen, Jeff Knorr, Laurie Lamon, John Linstrom, Cathy McArthur, Terry Minchow-Proffitt, Julie L. Moore, Kay Mullen, William Page, Nancy Pagh, Ann Robinson, Lex Runciman, Tania Runyan, Steven Sher, Alinia Sherman, Will Wells

Prose: Julie Bruck Reviewed by Paul David Adkins; Ann Fisher-Wirth Reviewed by Catherine Meeks; Cover Art Commentary on Richard Bauer by Gregg Hertzlieb; Recently Received and Recommended Books

"River in Winter": National Poetry Month

To celebrate National Poetry Month, Indiana Humanities is featuring a work by an Indiana poet each day in April. I am pleased to note that one of my new poems, "River in Winter," has been selected for inclusion and has been released today, April 23.

Photo of the Week: "Lake Dock at Sunset"

I remind all interested that my new photographs are available at a daily photo journal blog. I invite everyone to visit the blog for commentary about the photo and to click on the images there to examine them in high resolution or to magnify them for a detailed look.

Christina Cook: "Elegant Wreckage"

The VPR Poem of the Week is Christina Cook’s “Elegant Wreckage,” which appeared in the Spring/Summer 2011 issue (Volume XII, Number 2) of Valparaiso Poetry Review.

Christina Cook’s poems, translations, essays, and reviews have appeared or are forthcoming in a number of journals, most recently including The Dos Passos Review, Prairie Schooner, Hayden's Ferry Review, Harpur Palate, Packingtown Review, and Cave Wall. Cook is a contributing editor for Inertia Magazine, and she teaches writing at Colby-Sawyer College.

Tuesday of each week One Poet’s Notes highlights an excellent work by a poet selected from the issues 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.

Photo of the Week: "Gulls Along Lake Shore"

I remind all interested that my new photographs are available at a daily photo journal blog. I invite everyone to visit the blog for commentary about the photo and to click on the images there to examine them in high resolution or to magnify them for a detailed look.

Amanda Auchter: "Photograph, April 1956"

The VPR Poem of the Week is Amanda Auchter’s “Photograph, April 1956,” which appeared in the Fall/Winter 2005 issue (Volume X, Number 2) of Valparaiso Poetry Review.

 

 Amanda Auchter’s writing has appeared in Antietam Review, Blue Unicorn, The Homestead Review, Pennsylvania English, Willow Review, Writer's Journal, and others.  She is the author of The Wishing Tomb, winner of  the 2012 Perugia Press  Prize, The Glass Crib, winner of the 2010 Zone 3 Press First Book Award for Poetry, and the chapbook Light Under Skin.  She is the also recipient of the 2004 Howard Moss Poetry Prize. 

Tuesday of each week One Poet’s Notes highlights an excellent work by a poet selected from the issues 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. 

Photo of the Week: "Waiting for Warmer Weather"

I remind all interested that my new photographs are available at a daily photo journal blog. I invite everyone to visit the blog for commentary about the photo and to click on the images there to examine them in high resolution or to magnify them for a detailed look.

Barbara Crooker: "One Word"

The VPR Poem of the Week is Barbara Crooker’s “One Word,” which appeared in the Spring/Summer 2009 issue (Volume X, Number 2) of Valparaiso Poetry Review.

 

  Barbara Crooker’s poems have been published widely in magazines such as Beloit Poetry Journal, Christian Century, Christian Science Monitor, Denver Quarterly, Nimrod, Poetry International, Smartish Pace, and Tampa Review. She is the author of ten chapbooks, two of which won prizes in national competitions: Ordinary Life won the ByLine Chapbook competition in 2001 and Impressionism won the Grayson Books Chapbook competition in 2004. Her books of poetry include Radiance (2005), Line Dance (2008), and More (2010). 

Tuesday of each week One Poet’s Notes highlights an excellent work by a poet selected from the issues 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. 

Photo of the Week: "Sunset Beyond Thin Ice"

I remind all interested that my new photographs are available at a daily photo journal blog. I invite everyone to visit the blog for commentary about the photo and to click on the images there to examine them in high resolution or to magnify them for a detailed look.

Lynnell Edwards: "Easter Monday"

The VPR Poem of the Week is Lynnell Edwards’ “Easter Monday,” which appeared in the Spring/Summer 2008 issue (Volume IX, Number 2) of Valparaiso Poetry Review.

 

Lynnell Edwards is the author of The Farmer's Daughter (2003), The Highwayman's Wife (2007), and Covet (2011), all published by Red Hen Press. Her poetry and reviews have appeared in numerous literary journals, including Dos Passos Review, Georgia Review, Los Angeles Review, Pleiades, Poetry East, Rain Taxi, Southern Poetry Review, and Verse Daily.  She is the recipient of the 2007 Al Smith Fellowship from the Kentucky Arts Council. Edwards lives in Louisville, Kentucky, where she is on the Board of Directors for Louisville Literary Arts, a non-profit literary arts organization that sponsors the monthly InKY reading series and The Writer’s Block Festival. She is Associate Professor of English at Spalding University, and she also teaches creative writing at the Carnegie Center for Literacy.

Tuesday of each week One Poet’s Notes highlights an excellent work by a poet selected from the issues 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. 

Photo of the Week: "Dune in Late Winter"

I remind all interested that my new photographs are available at a daily photo journal blog. I invite everyone to visit the blog for commentary about the photo and to click on the images there to examine them in high resolution or to magnify them for a detailed look.

Floyd Skloot: "Sock Basketball"

The VPR Poem of the Week is Floyd Skloot’s "Sock Basketball," which appears in the Spring/Summer 2012 issue (Volume XIII, Number 2) of Valparaiso Poetry Review.

Floyd Skloot’s Selected Poems: 1970-2005 (Tupelo Press, 2008) won a 2009 Pacific NW Booksellers Association Book Award.  His sixth collection of new poems, The Snow’s Music, appeared from LSU Press in 2008, and a forthcoming collection is due from Tupelo Press.  He received the 2004 PEN USA Literary Award in Creative Nonfiction for his memoir, In the Shadow of Memory (University of Nebraska Press, 2003). His memoir, The Wink of the Zenith: The Shaping of a Writer’s Life, was published by the University of Nebraska Press in 2008. Skloot has also won three Pushcart Prizes, an Independent Publishers Book Award, and two Oregon Book Awards.  

Tuesday of each week One Poet’s Notes highlights an excellent work by a poet selected from the issues 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.