Blue Jay and Something Else
From a Place Other than the Lake
If Never the Why then at Least the How
Tender
Daneen Wardrop is the author of a book of poetry, The Odds of Being (Silverfish Review Press, 2008). She is the author of three books of literary criticism, including Emily Dickinson and the Labor of Clothing (University Press of New England, 2009). Her poems have appeared in The Kenyon Review, The Virginia Quarterly Review, Gulf Coast, TriQuarterly, The North American Review, and AGNI. She is the recipient of a 2011 National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, the 2006 Robert H. Winner Award from the Poetry Society of America, and the 2005 Bentley Prize for Poetry from The Seattle Review. Wardrop is a professor of English at Western Michigan University.
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