Poetry - Spring 2006

Morning and Reading Akhmatova

By Karl Kirchwey

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Karl Kirchwey is associate professor of the arts, director of creative writing, and chair of the arts program at Bryn Mawr College. His fifth book of poems, The Happiness of This World, was published in 2007.