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On this Thanksgiving Day, I pause to offer my gratitude for all of the good fortune that has occurred in the past year, and I once again express my appreciation to each reader of Valparaiso Poetry Review who has happened upon the valuable works...
“We are not here to be thankful for strange things we can do with our bodies!”
“On this very special occasion, my mind goes back over the years to the people who have influenced me . . . Tielhard de Chardin, George Sand, Caravaggio, oh, Emily...
The VPR Poem of the Week is Deborah Bogen’s “November,” which appeared in the Fall/Winter 2008-2009 issue (Volume X, Number 1) of Valparaiso Poetry Review.
Deborah Bogen’s book-length collection, Landscape with Silos (Texas A&M University...
Hit it!—The Love Song of Jericho Brown’s Please
review by Susanna Childress
Too many times in the past few years I have finished a recently published volume of poetry and put it back on the bookshelf thinking, “Okay, okay, I get it: not only...
Since 1976, editor Bill Henderson has brought added recognition to the many fine small presses and literary journals publishing quality material with his annual anthology, The Pushcart Prize: Best of the Small Presses. In recent years, the nomination...
