We’re proud to announce VQR’s spring 2012 special issue on American Poetry, which in addition to faculty member C. Dale Young’s poems (posted earlier this week) includes work by Warren Wilson faculty Debra Allbery, David Baker, A. Van Jordan, Alan Shapiro and Pimone Triplett, as well as alumnae Victoria Chang and Meghan O’Rourke:

Debra Allbery — Vinton County, 1965

David Baker — The Anniversary and Five Odes on Absence;

Song of Sanity (essay)

Victoria Chang — We Are Monica (Acrostic)

A. Van Jordan — Blazing Saddles

Meghan O’Rourke — At Père Lachaise and For Apollinaire

Alan Shapiro — Gravity and In Winter

Pimone Triplett — Real Estate and Census