The VPR Poem of the Week is Jeannine Dobbs’s “I Confess, I Wanted To Be June,” which appeared in the Spring/Summer 2006 issue (Volume VII, Number 2) of Valparaiso Poetry Review.
Jeannine Dobbs has had poetry in a number of journals, such as Amicus Journal, Chelsea, Massachusetts Review, Midwest Quarterly, Ohio Review, and Shenandoah. A collection of her work was published by Alice James Books as one-third of Three Some Poems.
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