Karin Roffman, Guest Blogger March 28 - April 3

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March 28, 2010

Karin Roffman, Guest Blogger March 28 - April 3

This week we welcome Karin Roffman as our guest blogger. Karin Roffman's first book, From the Modernist Annex: American Women Writers in Museums and Libraries, won the Elizabeth Agee Manuscript Award from the University of Alabama Press and will be published in May, 2010. An essay on John Ashbery is forthcoming in Raritan. She is an assistant professor of English at West Point.

Welcome, Karin.

-- sdh

ed note: The opinions expressed on this blog are Roffman's own and not necessarily those of the U.S. Military Academy, the Department of the Army, or the Department of Defense.

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Radio

I left it
on when I
left the house
for the pleasure
of coming back
ten hours later
to the greatness
of Teddy Wilson
"After You've Gone"
on the piano
in the corner
of the bedroom
as I enter
in the dark

from New and Selected Poems by David Lehman