The VPR Poem of the Week is Mark Conway’s “Orpheus Speaks,” which appeared in the Fall/Winter 2006-2007 issue (Volume VIII, Number 1) of Valparaiso Poetry Review. Conway will be presenting his poetry this Wednesday, October 13 at 4:00 p.m., in the Brauer Museum of Art at Valparaiso University. This event is free and open to the public.
Mark Conway is the recipient of awards from the Aldrich Poetry Competition, the Grolier Competition, and the McKnight Foundation. His work has appeared in Agni, Bomb, Gettysburg Review, Paris Review, Ploughshares, and Prairie Schooner, among other literary journals. Conway’s collections of poems are Any Holy City and Dreaming Man, Face Down.
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