Poem of the Week: “Flooding the House” by Karen Kovacik

vprThe VPR Poem of the Week is Karen Kovacik’s “Flooding the House,” which appears in the current issue (Spring/Summer 2010: Volume XI, Number 2) of Valparaiso Poetry Review.

Karen Kovacik is the author of Metropolis Burning (Cleveland State, 2005), Beyond the Velvet Curtain (Kent State, 1999), and Nixon and I (Kent State, 1998). Her work also has appeared in a number of journals, such as Glimmer Train, Massachusetts Review, Salmagundi, and West Branch. She received a translation Fulbright to Warsaw, Poland, and is working on translating several collections by younger women poets.

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