Poem of the Week: “Still Dark” by Norbert Krapf

The VPR Poem of the Week is Norbert Krapf’s “Still Dark,” which appeared in the Spring/Summer 2009 issue (Volume X, Number 2) of Valparaiso Poetry Review. valparaiso-poetry-review

Norbert Krapf taught for 34 years at Long Island University, where he directed the C.W. Post Poetry Center. He is currently serving as the Indiana Poet Laureate. His recent works include Sweet Sister Moon (WordTech Editions, 2009); Bloodroot: Indiana Poems (Indiana University Press, 2008); a prose memoir, The Ripest Moments: A Southern Indiana Childhood (Indiana Historical Society Press, 2008); and a poetry and jazz CD with Monika Herzig, Imagine—Indiana in Music and Words (Acme Records, 2007). He also collaborated with Indiana photographer Darryl Jones in Invisible Presence (Indiana University Press, 2006). Among Krapf’s various honors, he has been a recipient of the Lucille Medwick Memorial Award from the Poetry Society of America.

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