The VPR Poem of the Week is Thomas Reiter’s “Forcing the Forsythia,” which appears in the current issue of Valparaiso Poetry Review (Spring/Summer 2010: Volume XI, Number 2) released this week. Readers are invited to examine the entire new issue of Valparaiso Poetry Review.
Thomas Reiter’s recent book of poems, Catchment, was published in 2009 by Louisiana State University Press. He has received an Academy of American Poets Prize as well as fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the New Jersey State Council on the Arts.
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