Poem of the Week: “Autumn” by Barry Ballard

vprThe VPR Poem of the Week is Barry Ballard’s “Autumn,” which appeared in the Spring/Summer 2002 issue (Volume III, Number 1) of Valparaiso Poetry Review.

Barry Ballard’s poetry has been published in American Literary Review, Chariton Review, Connecticut Review, Florida Review, Margie, Midwest Quarterly, Prairie Schooner, Quarterly West, and elsewhere. His collections of poems include Green Tombs to Jupiter (Snail’s Pace Press), A Time to Reinvent (Creative Ash Press), Plowing to the End of the Road (Finishing Line Press), and A Body Speaks Through Fence Lines (Pudding House Press).

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