Poem of the Week: “In the Kirkegaard, December,” by Athena Kildegaard

vprThe VPR Poem of the Week is Athena Kildegaard’s “In the Kirkegaard, December,” which appeared in the Spring/Summer 2011 issue (Volume XII, Number 2) of Valparaiso Poetry Review.

Athena Kildegaard has had work appear in Faultline, Drunken Boat, Poetry East, Puerto del Sol, Cream City Review, Tar River Poetry, and elsewhere. Her first book, Rare Momentum, was published by Red Dragonfly Press, as will the forthcoming collection, Bodies of Light.

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