Poem of the Week: “Heavy Snow” by Chris Ellis

The VPR Poem of the Week is Chris Ellis’s “Heavy Snow,” which appeared in the Spring/Summer 2008 issue (Volume IX, Number 2) of Valparaiso Poetry Review.

Chris Ellis has had previous poems and an interview of Jonathan Holden published in Valparaiso Poetry Review. Ellis, a former resident of Northwest Indiana, is a veterinarian who co-authored a book of avian and exotic animal studies. She also has been a member of the Center for Disease Control in Fort Collins, Colorado, but now works and continues graduate studies at Kansas State University.

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