The VPR Poem of the Week is Kim Bridgford’s “Remembrance,” which appeared in the Spring/Summer 2003 issue (Volume IV, Number 2) of Valparaiso Poetry Review.
Kim Bridgford directs the writing program at Fairfield University, where she is a professor of English and editor of Dogwood. Her works of poetry and fiction have appeared in Christian Science Monitor, Iowa Review, Massachusetts Review, North American Review, Redbook, Witness, and many other journals She has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Connecticut Commission on the Arts. Bridgford’s books of poetry are Undone (David Robert Books, 2003), Instead of Maps (David Robert Books, 2005), and In the Extreme: Sonnets about World Records (Story Line Press, 2007).
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