The VPR Poem of the Week is T. Alan Broughton’s “Bird in the Garage,” which appeared in the Fall/Winter 2007-2008 issue (Volume IX, Number 1) of Valparaiso Poetry Review.
T. Alan Broughton has published four novels and a collection of short stories. His seventh collection of poems, A World Remembered (2010), has just been released by Carnegie Mellon University Press. He also has been the recipient of various grants, awards, and fellowships, including a Guggenheim Fellowship and a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship.
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